Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Operation. No longer was there a Duce. But more than 20 years of Fascist power and preachment could not be wiped out in a day. Mussolini, as much as any man, had planted the cancer that had spread beyond his homeland into Germany, Spain, Central Europe and the Balkans. The removal of the Italian dictator was, in a sense, preliminary surgery on the malignance still afflicting mankind...
Died. Sir Patrick Duncan, 72, Governor General of the Union of South Africa since 1937; of cancer; in Pretoria. A grey-thatched, firm-lipped Scot, Duncan studied at Oxford's Balliol College, became a barrister of the Inner Temple, entered colonial service in 1894. He rose to be Minister of the Interior, Public Health and Education (1921-24), was the first South African citizen to become Governor General...
Soon they were halfway to the target, bumping through rough air over the Mediterranean. Some of the men got sick. The men knew that they, a handful only, must plant a cancer amidst the enemy and make it grow. They knew this even before the colonel spoke: "Well, boys, we are truly the first men of America tonight. We will be the first to land in Axis Europe. For hours & hours we will be alone. There will be enemies all around us and over our heads. We must do our best." Then, offhandedly, he added: "We are headed for Sicily...
Dark, shy Dr. Voegtlin has headed the Institute (in Bethesda, Md.) since 1938. Since he joined the Public Health Service in 1913 he has headed research which compared the acidity and oxygen consumption of cancerous and normal cells, calculated the amount of vitamin C in tumors, discovered chemicals which produce cancer, studied the effect of radio waves on cancer...
...developing a protective vaccine has brought him a public reputation. He was idealized as the hero of Lloyd Douglas' novel. Green Light-moviegoers know him as the man (Errol Flynn) who went into the Rockies after ticks. Since 1938, as assistant director of the Cancer Institute, he has done much spadework on what heat, radium and cancer-causing substances do to animals-one way of studying what they...