Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, India loomed from the unimaginable reach of time. Its landscape matched its origins -an immense wedge of the world, vast plains cracked by a too hot sun, vast jungles writhing with growth from too dense rains, vast cities melting under the unflagging onset of oblivion and the soft decay of stone itself, 400 million people pullulating in a too frantic drive to defeat the multiplicity of daily death...
Nobody knows just what it is about Deaf Smith County, Tex. But for some reason, Deaf Smith citizens are almost immune to tooth decay (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). Last fortnight Dr. George W. Heard, the local dentist who drew national attention to Deaf Smith's perfect teeth, and Dr. F. Melton Butler of Seattle announced that they had a charter for a foundation to discover, produce and market the essence of Deaf Smith-whatever...
Dentists suspect that the county's main tooth preserver is fluorine. Everywhere surveys have been made, the quality of teeth has been found to vary with the amount of fluorine in the local water supply: too little fluorine-much dental decay; too much fluorine-hard, but mottled, teeth (TIME, Jan. 8, 1940); fluorine just right-excellent teeth...
...After Mussolini and his mistress were killed: "Hand joined to hand and face to face; In noisome, pestilent embrace. So trickling down with foul decay, They wore their lingering lives away"-Virgil's Aeneid...
However, the industrial power of the U.S. v. Russia (and v. Germany) probably depends most of all on prosperity in the U.S. U.S. prosperity will in turn depend in good part on U.S. exports, including exports to Russia. Idle machines and men would promote social, political and industrial decay...