Word: considerably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"If there is to be a long-range, overall plan ... we should consider how to make the face we show in Europe represent more closely the rugged visage of the United States, how to make our voice there ring out with more of our native confidence. . . . Europe wants what we...
Sympathectomy, cutting of the sympathetic nerves, is causing the most violent arguments of all. The operation is now prescribed for a wide variety of ailments, from excessive sweating to high blood pressure. Nobody knows how many thousands of sympathectomies surgeons perform each year; there are an estimated 1,000 in...
*Many Moslems have only contempt for Western sex ethics, which they consider hypocritical. Mohamed used monogamy as a punishment, admonishing: "If you cannot deal equitably and justly with all, you shall marry only one."
In certain types of T.B.-pulmonary (lung), miliary (small spots that may scatter through the body) and meningeal (brain and spinal cord)-streptomycin seemed to help. A few patients were completely cured, many of them gained weight and felt better during the four months' treatment. But in most patients...
Producer Joan Harrison & associates have brought the story to the screen with considerable skill. Mr. Young and Miss Johnson are excellent as the ill-mated man & wife; Susan Hayward proficiently sells her special brand of sexiness; Miss Greer is a comely beginner. And many of the minor roles are more sharply drawn and cast than the leads. The jury, for instance, may be caricatured, but it is frightening to consider that such a group holds in its hands a life even so patently worthless as Mr. Young...