Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard for the truth, was inexcusable. Your apology was less than frank. Public cynicism toward the press no doubt stems from the fact that papers like TIME, when departing from truth in order to wisecrack, are disinclined to make the apology as broad as the original insult; thus you compound the evil. As friend and attorney for Mr. Hoover I write to say that your crack could have no result but to undermine the standing of J. Edgar Hoover as a unique, law-enforcing official, one who has impressed on our folkways a concept of law & order while still preserving...
Ecumenical Church. Having painstakingly diagnosed Protestantism's compound ailments, Dr. Morrison fairly raced to a prescription for the cure: U.S. Protestantism's 200-odd separate "churches" must become a single Church united under the Lordship of Christ...
...long years of war, news from embattled China funneled through the tumbledown, mud-&-lath buildings of the Chungking Press Hostel. Last week, the last of the foreign-press corps followed the Central Government to Nanking. The bamboo-fenced compound looked as dreary and forsaken as an empty schoolyard-which...
When the ruinous Jap air raid of May 4, 1939 flattened 25% of Chungking's downtown buildings, the Government had turned over the former Pa Hsien Middle School compound to the press. All the place ever had in its favor was its central location. Air-raid dugouts, Chiang Kai-shek's house and the Chinese Central News Agency were within half a mile...
Every element and compound can be tagged in this way. Within a few years, tracers should be: 1) marking the progress of raw materials through industrial processes, 2) "banding" bacteria as if they were robins, 3) even following the motion of water deep underground...