Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharply expressed in the face and form of Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy. Now McCarthy is dead, having outlived his ism, and the face of Nikita Khrushchev beams from U.S. television screens. Previous Supreme Courts had upheld security laws on the implied Holmesian basis of "clear and present danger." By comparison, Earl Warren's court has moved with drastic speed toward the implied concept of very little danger at all. Items...
...knows "there are vitamins even in garbage," Picasso has parlayed inventiveness into a sizable garbage can. Art always contains elements of invention, but invention is not necessarily art. The final caricature by this apocryphal "genius" is the comparison of himself with Raphael...
...would live to see the day when myopic TIME would realize as it did in its May 27 lead article that President Eisenhower is sadly lacking in political stature, conviction and political ability. My own guess about his future place in history is that he will suffer from comparison with President Grant...
Peptic Ulcers. Smokers' death rate was 116% higher for duodenal ulcers. When they got to the comparison for stomach-ulcer deaths, Hammond and Horn's graph bar ran off the chart; there was not a single such death among the nonsmokers, but there were 46 among cigarette smokers (five among other smokers...
...George Washington University's Dr. Benjamin Manchester has piled up evidence that anti-clotting drugs help to prolong the lives of heart-attack victims by preventing subsequent attacks: in five years only 20% of patients so treated died, 14% of them from heart attacks, while in a comparison group, untreated, 53% died and 60% had further attacks. Cardiologist Manchester also reported on a new anti-clotting drug, Sintrom, valuable because it can be taken by mouth in small doses and works fast...