Word: butted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At Lawson Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, report Dr. William J. Senter and two colleagues in the current American Journal of Medicine, Noles was found to have kala-azar, a disease unknown in the U.S. until just before the war. Some symptoms of kala-azar are like those of malaria...
Drug manufacturers were making feverish claims that anti-histaminics (anti-allergy drugs) would cure the common cold, and they were selling their new medicines by the carload. But last week the American Medical Association, through its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry, announced sternly that it "is not convinced that [present...
Methylcellulose, Dr. Bargen found, is a bulking substance which can be taken handily in tablet form. In lukewarm water or in the digestive tract it forms a suspension of "innumerable tiny translucent gelatinous particles 0.5 mm. or less in diameter." It goes through most of the digestive tract unchanged, but...
There was a touch of slapstick in the shot of a delegate dozing off during a tedious speech and being fussily wakened by an aide who had noticed that the TV camera was recording the cat nap. Particularly effective on TV is the contrast between the tuned-down but passionate...
As entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or...