Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acid Test. Now, 15 years after the Massie case, the nation is confronted again by the problem of Hawaii's races,* and in a way which will reawaken in the U.S. Senate something of the same uneasiness aroused by the Massie affair. Hawaii is knocking at the nation's door. After almost half a century of territorial status, she wants to be admitted as the 49th state. Her aggressive spokesman is Joseph Farrington, an influential publisher, son of an immigrant from the mainland, and Hawaii's Delegate to the U.S. Congress...
...vote, the House approved statehood for Hawaii. Next month the Senate will send Oregon's Guy Cordon to make another one of several congressional on-the-spot investigations. When the Senate takes a vote in its regular session next year, democracy will get an acid test. But it will be the mainland's democracy which gets the test. For Hawaii is the most democratic area under the U.S. flag...
...drug, called Teropterin, was developed by the Lederle Laboratories, and was first tried on animals and one patient at Mt. Sinai Hospital (TIME, Sept. 15). It is a vitaminlike chemical derived from folic acid...
...find parts of Rivera's mural rough on the digestion. Among the dreams of the past, floating above the park benches on the left, was a minutely gory torture scene from Mexico's Inquisition, and the dreams of the future had room for what appeared to be acid caricatures of contemporary governmental officials. (Rivera explained that any resemblances were coincidental: "It's only because living people frequently run to type.") But few could fail to be charmed by the portrait of the artist as a messy little fat boy, standing smack in the center...
...Jolson is half as lively in front of a microphone as he is in conversation around his Hollywood swimming pool, Kraft need not worry. The agency is spending at least $20,000 a week on the show, in which Al is supported by acid-tongued Pianist Oscar Levant. Kraft offered Al a fat four-year contract, without options, 39 weeks a year, with two weeks off in every...