Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major handicap in cancer research has been the difficulty of growing human cancers in laboratory animals so that a whole arsenal of chemicals, viruses and antibiotics may be tested directly upon the human instead of the animal varieties of the disease. Dr. Helene Wallace Toolan of Manhattan's Memorial Center reported that during the last year she had found what seemed to be the answer: human cancers took hold readily and grew well in rats that had first been dosed with cortisone. The hope in it for humans: more human cancer tissue to experiment with safely...
Like the blossoming flowers of May, Harvard's annual crop of water pistols has sprouted. Thousands of guns more colorful than a flower show in full bloom suddenly appeared since spring vacation. Sales are booming. Local stores call Harvard the "Arsenal of the East," and proudly claim part in its newest sport...
...University's public relations, this is the hard way out. It will add to the arsenal of the University's opponents: They will howl that there is now a man on the Faculty who will not say he is not a Communist. But for the legal and moral foundations of the tenure rules, it is a necessity. It will be a black day for American education when this University is frightened enough to break the contract of a man so far innocent in order to placate a more cowardly public. It has never done so in the past...
Four years ago the Communists resolved to turn their seven East European satellites from what was once Europe's granary into Russia's arsenal. This was the Molotov Plan, to counter the Marshall Plan, and it got a bureaucratic name: KOMEKON.† The goal was gargantuan: to create a new industrial empire, 90 million strong. The cost, in hardship, did not matter...
...rumor that one of these plans may be adopted for immediate action sends practical rocket men into a cold sweat. Neither Von Braun nor his critics can debate freely in public. Von Braun works for Army Ordnance at its guided missile center at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. His job is military missiles, not space ships, but nearly all the facts that bear on space flight also apply to missiles and are, therefore, strictly secret. His opponents are muzzled by the same difficulty...