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Word: cancered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Nathan died, Maurice lost his zest for business. He got to brooding about the thing that had killed his brother -cancer. One day he announced: "From now on, all I want is to see cancer licked." As soon as the two younger Goldblatt brothers, Joel and Louis, returned from the war, Maurice turned the family's 15-store, $86-million-a-year business over to them and went out to fight cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Horsepower | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Long and Jimmy Morrison got down on all fours, playing the game of politics. Morrison confided last week: "The other day I got my rumor factory goin' on the story that Earl has cancer of the throat. I know it ain't so, but that's politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Old Girl's New Boy | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

This Time Tomorrow (by Jan de Hartog; produced by the Theatre Guild) is as solemn as a church organ and as hollow as a drum. A young scientist working on cancer research falls in love with a young girl dying of tuberculosis. Indeed, the X rays proclaim that she should already be dead; what is keeping her alive is a passionate desire to reproduce. She is additionally remarkable for having learned the nature of death, and for having visions that foretell the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...once shipped to them. In a year or so, he hopes, he will have all the most important strains, housed this time in improved, fireproof buildings. He still lacks a few strains (notably C57 brown, sub-line C and C57 brown, sub-line A, used chiefly for breast cancer research). Many of the strains used to illustrate Mendelian laws are also missing. Dr. Little thinks that the missing mice strains may yet be found in some small laboratory, or maybe even in a high school. He hopes that their owners will be generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mouse Hunt | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Died. General Constantin Sanatescu, 62, reluctant Premier of Rumania's first, pro-Allied Government after her surrender in August 1944; of cancer; in Bucharest. Co-engineer with King Michael of the coup d'état that overthrew the Fascist puppet-masters, Sanatescu fell into disfavor with the Russians after three months as premier, quit, became inspector general of the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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