Word: brod
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells is called a log, and in the first few years after Dr. Farber introduced methotrexate treatment, doctors found that they could knock off one or at most two logs, or zeros, from the cell count. This meant that more patients enjoyed longer...
...only spark came at the beginning as Howie Henjyoji (123) pinned Brod Browsky in the third period -- and even Henjyoji was losing, 4-2, at the time...
...price of replacement programming costs a budget-breaking $50 million. Audience Surveys officials claim that their system is 92% accurate; that is, their pretesting weeds out all but 8% of the shows that are destined to be unpopular. Yet most scriptwriters, performers and directors echo the sentiments of Producer Brod kin, who argues that the system is "devised for idiots by idiots...
...passed since then has been deeply marked." Why keep anonymous this friend who has rendered such far-reaching service by his power of judgment and foresight, and who is indeed one of the most interesting figures in the history of contemporary literature? This friend is the author-philosopher Max Brod, who has also launched other writers on their way to fame, notably Franz Werfel, and Heinz Politzer himself, who as a young man listened reverently to Brod...