Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powerful American Medical Association, which was trying to raise $3,500,000 from its members to fight the President's program, raised an excited and angry voice. Said the A.M.A.: "Government-herding of patients and doctors in assembly-line medical mills would lower the standards of healthy America to those of sick, regimented Europe...
...Cigar Institute of America offered the Smithsonian Institution an antique: an 85-year-old cigar (unsmoked...
...high-school faculties, still dubious about mixed classes, are trying to let students make their own decisions-even to chewing gum. One teacher, Tadao Naka-nami, caught a boy chewing gum and bawled him out. The student fired back: "In America the students chew gum." Stymied, the teacher put the issue up to class debate: Was it proper to chew gum in school even if Americans did so? The class long and earnestly debated the issue, then decided it was wrong, ordered the offending boy to apologize...
...roared again when Berman lugged a big unwieldy radio set into the ring. When he turned it on, the audience heard some barking dogs. "That," said Berman, "is the 'Voice of America.' Now for the BBC." This time the radio emitted the sound of grunting pigs. Then Berman reached into the set and pulled out a squealing young pig. "Churchill's heir," he cried...
They will handle America's oldest student law magazine during its sixty-third year of publication since its founding in 1887. The eight issues per year of the journal are filled with discussions of contemporary legal problems...