Word: cancered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generals in medicine's research war on cancer met last week in Chicago and claimed tentative gains along two strategically important roads...
...goldsmith's apprentice of Azerbaijan. Four years ago, when Avak was 16, God had appeared in a vision before him. God had given Avak the power to cure. Letters from the old country swore it was true. With a touch of his fingers Avak cured ulcers, paralysis, cancer. He had been tried for charlatanry-and had won acquittal by curing the throbbing pain in his judge's head. He had also won as his staunchest disciple the Iranian army doctor 'assigned to investigate...
...week the expatriate might listen to Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller expounding in four-letter words his philosophy of life-the essence of which, Author Putnam says, "was to the effect that prostitutes are about the only pure beings to be found in a world of reeking garbage." There was also frustrated Author Leo Stein, whose loathing of his prolific sister, Gertrude, was a feature of the boulevards. "My God, Sam!" Leo would groan to Author Putnam, "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were in school, I used to have to do all her homework...
...extremely powerful drug, it may be used in smaller doses than morphine, and its pain-killing effect sometimes lasts eight to ten hours. It even controls the extreme pain of late stages of cancer. The Germans reported that they have used it (intravenously) in amputations, and even in head operations. The patient remains fully conscious and can talk with the surgeon...
...September in Wisconsin. The articles, advocating safeguards to assure democracy within the organization, is timely, lets a few generalizations suffice for a positive program. Then there is a study of veterans' bonuses that shows four or five better ways by which the government could spend this money: city planning, cancer research, mental hospitals. In a rather illogical about-face at the end, the author suggests that veterans ask for the money and give it to these worthy causes...