Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With these innovations Arlington Books "will be able to resist the current trend of printing bad books on the theory that this is the only way one can afford publishing good ones," Bledsoe asserted. Darwin, Wallace by Bert J. Loewenberg was the first book released by the company, and two others will be published next week...
...investigating team noted that insects resist cold by dehydrating. Thus, by dehydrating the heart, they felt they might effectively lower its freezing point so that it could be cooled without damage. Since the normal method of dehydration is by freezing, Doctor Samuel C. Collins, head of the Department of Cryogenic Engineering at M.I.T., devised another means to dehydrate the heart...
...head of the Congress is a Honolulu-born, 39-year-old racist who runs a native trading post on the outskirts of Salisbury and bears the ironic name of David Blackman. Members of Blackman's Congress must swear not to "contribute to multiracialism in any form" and to resist all efforts to give Negroes more power "in their present immature state." A branch of the movement opened in Northern Rhodesia, and members began signing up in Kenya and Tanganyika...
...effect of Virginia's "massive resist ance" to school integration on the 13,000 Norfolk students who now have no schooling at all, as seen through the camera eye of Edward R. Murrow...
...meet the demands of missile makers, U.S. scientists have worked for years on metals that can resist the high temperatures generated by supersonic speeds. One such metal is molybdenum, which melts at 4748° F., v. about 3000° F. in commonly used alloys. But making molybdenum castings was long impossible; its melting point is so high that it destroyed the crucible holding it. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Mines announced "a major metallurgical breakthrough"; it had succeeded in making molybdenum castings...