Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist Sartre also found decay in the city of skyscrapers. "They are already historical monuments, witnesses of a past epoch. . . . I cannot view them without sadness: they speak of a time when we thought the last war had been fought, when we believed in peace. Already they are slightly neglected; tomorrow, perhaps, they will be demolished. . . . To build them in the first place required a faith we no longer feel...
...TIME, Sept. 18, 1944), was a suspenseful psychological study, is more successful in showing where his characters stand in relation to the brotherhood of man than in furnishing them with real legs. His Indians and friars have simple souls, his slave-owners display appropriate symptoms of spiritual and physical decay: everyone is more symbolical than human. But the colorful setting and the well-organized, well-dramatized facts of history set The Takers of the City well above the average of current historical novels...
Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...
Heartland of U.P.W.A. is Chicago's smoky, sprawling, brawling "back-of-the-yards" district. There, in ugly tenements filled with the odors of decay and burning hair, some 100,000 of the meatworkers live. Two forces unite them: the packinghouses, and the Catholic Church...
...biggest producer in the Orient, scuttled this hope. After jeeping through the Malay peninsula, TIME Correspondent John Luter reported: no hidden stocks of tin, and no mine would operate for months to come. The Japs had looted the bulk of the engineering tools, flooded the mines, left destruction and decay behind them. The plight of the tin mines was far worse than that of the rubber plantations, which had been comparatively unharmed...