Word: benignly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Benign Paternalism. Long ago the seeds were planted. Once, Hawaii was an island paradise of flowers and trees, of tawny Polynesian women and warrior chiefs, jungle fastnesses and snow-capped mountains. In 1778 Captain Cook discovered the islands, and was followed by lusty traders and, in the 18203, by the New England missionaries with their modest Mother Hubbards and their Protestant churches and teachers...
Vaccination? By now, the SE (for Stewart-Eddy) polyoma (multiple-tumor) virus has hurdled the species barrier and caused cancers not only in mice but in rats and in Syrian and Chinese hamsters. In rabbits, for some strange reason, it causes only benign tumors. So far, Drs. Stewart and Eddy have not been able to infect monkeys with their virus, but a determined effort to do so is under way at Roswell Park Institute. Patricia, a lone baby monkey harboring polyoma virus, has her own spotless nursery where she is cared for by Nurse Althea Higgins. Drs. Stewart and Eddy...
Harvard's .benign, bemused Werner Wilhelm Jaeger, 70, world-renowned interpreter of ancient Greek humanism, one of the first scholars to bear Harvard's exalted University Professor title. At nine, German-born Classicist Jaeger fascinatedly read his first Latin grammar straight through, at 25 took over the University of Basel's Greek chair, once occupied by Nietzsche. His biography of Aristotle (1923) revolutionized classical scholarship when he was still a young professor at the University of Berlin; his monumental Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture is a three-volume university, a gold mine of the ideas that...
...Methodist minister who became Speaker of Liberia's House of Representatives. Tubman himself is a cigar-chomping ban vivant who likes to have the towers of Monrovia's Saturday Afternoon Club specially illuminated whenever he drops in at night. He runs his Ohio-sized country with the benign shrewdness of an oldtime U.S. city boss and a good many of the trappings of an African autocrat. If Liberia is still one of the most backward countries in Africa, its pace of advance is now among the fastest...
...published stories, though, came up to the statement composed by the self-styled "old cracked-up Irish ruin" himself before he went under the knife. "Mentally, I'm a mess. You've heard of mixed emotions? Man, this is rough . . . If it's a benign tumor of some sort, hurray for our side-no more sweat. If the damn thing is malignant, cancerous, then there's real trouble . . . Never felt better in my life. Then, boom: this horrible, skulking 'thing' visible only as a ghostly shadow on an X-ray negative. This 'thing...