Word: contains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME presents some of the problems of the world makes it more possible for one to consider them sanely; for, unlike most newspapers, TIME never becomes hysterical over any situation, no matter of what grave portent. If one accepts a crisis by looking for whatever humor that crisis may contain, one is surely more apt to reach a sensible, sane and logical conclusion...
...cell has shifted to South America, where Communists are working and organizing like beavers (see LATIN AMERICA) . In Buenos Aires, Messersmith can only watch-from the splendor of the colonnaded U.S. Embassy. He feels it is his principal job to get along with Perón, while seeking to contain the Peron influence in Argentina and preventing its spread to the rest of South America...
...trouble with Tass, said a critic in Moscow's Culture and Life, is that in covering the "main events of international life [Tass dispatches] contain much foreign and special terminology which is not understandable by an ordinary collective farmer." Culture and Life didn't say so, but the inference was that Tass had picked up such bad habits from its capitalistic brothers...
Chemistry. To three biochemists, explorers of the intricate reactions within living organisms. Half went to Professor James Batcheller Sumner of Cornell, first to isolate an enzyme (urease) in crystalline form. Enzymes are "organic catalysts" which influence the chemical behavior of substances concerned with life. Said Dr. Sumner: "Living cells contain hundreds if not thousands of enzymes, and one definition of life is action by those enzymes, wherein such phenomena occur as growth, reproduction and other biological changes...
...Boyden Station in South Africa, corresponding center for southern photography, is at Harvard Kopje in Orange Free State. Its white stucco buildings, located on a high plateau 14 miles from Bloemfontein, contain six telescopes which cover all of the southern sky and 30 degrees of the northern. The site first chosen for the Southern observatory, Arepuipa, Peru, was in operation from 1890 to 1926 at which time the expensive transfer of equipment was made to the new location...