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Word: atomics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record, he was right. As the convention proceeded, there were optimistic reports of a new antibiotic, tetracycline (like aureomycin but with hydrogen replacing a chlorine atom in the molecule), and of a multibiotic. a triple-threat combination of streptomycin, bacitracin and polymyxin, for external use only. But there was also plenty of talk of deleterious effects. Boston's Dr. Ethan Allan Brown called today's enthusiastic but haphazard use of antibiotics "appalling." It is misleading, he said, to speak only of patients whose deaths are recorded as resulting from reactions to antibiotics. There are more deaths, said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cures & Cautions | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

...news of a dramatic new U.S. plan for peaceful use of the atom, see SCIENCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: Strategy in Transition | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...time. They squash their last teacher under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will be only a word-to be used every time a school window is broken, a classroom wrecked or an underclassman over-hazed. Otherwise, wrote Poet C. Day Lewis in a special dirge, St. Trinian's is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Poison-Ivied Walls | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

Defense policy (see below) will have to be recast, shaped around the atom-the U.S. atom and the Russian atom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Trapeze | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...atom, without which the U.S. would be lost, cannot alone save the nation from the Russian atom. The immediate emphasis must fall on foreign policy, which includes the strengthening of alliances, and the construction, through U.N. and otherwise, of institutions fostering international peace and justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Trapeze | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

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