Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compound of dreamer and practical masterbuilder which hoists Gropius to his commanding position. Colleagues may gain his grasp of industrial civilization's new demands upon the architect, but they are not likely to catch up to the stride of his dynamic evolving personal philosophy. To the older elements in the profession everything he stands for is still poison: these are men who are aware that the New Architecture steadily gains ground but who are doggedly wed to pat formulas and the Roman column...
...midnight last week two native boys finished work at Peleliu's naval compound, started home through the jungle. As they swung into the trail through the mangroves, prowlers jumped them. They dived for cover, with bullets zipping overhead. Next day they reported to the commander of Peleliu's tiny naval and Marine detachment that their attackers were Japanese guerrillas...
...children's tonsillitis, many U.S. doctors have been prescribing a new drug called Analbis. The drug, a bismuth compound, has an affinity for lymph and attacks the infection in sore throats. In the last three years doctors have used it for hundreds of thousands of patients...
...years as dean were the Harvard Law School's golden age. His faculty was famed: a volatile compound whose ingredients included the conservatism of the late Edward H. ("Bull") Warren, the New Dealism of James Landis and the confused leftism of Felix Frankfurter. Harvard turned out squads of bright and earnest lawyers who wrote or administered much of the early New Deal legislation (among them: Thomas Corcoran. David Lilienthal, Dean Acheson). Its postgraduate courses were the best in the U.S. Dean Pound's standards were high; and his customary greeting to incoming classes-"Gentlemen, take a good look...
Most successful experimenter was Dr. Wallace Carothers of Du Pont. While trying to synthesize a silklike fiber, he stumbled upon a compound with a wonderful musky odor. Under the name of Astro-tone, it is widely used as a musk substitute. (Returning to bis original quest, Du Font's Carothers did women an even greater service by discovering nylon...