Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first widely distributed tooth powder to include carbamide (urea) and dibasic ammonium phosphate (TIME, Feb. 14), had climbed, so its makers claimed, to fourth place in sales among all U.S. dentifrices, surpassed only by Colgate, Ipana and Pepsodent. Amm-i-Dent, a dentifrice supposed to head off tooth decay, had indisputably set the trade's teeth on edge...
Death and decay loomed large in Maeterlinck's works. "Everywhere," wrote a critic, "Maeterlinck discerned signs of an inevitable decadence of the human race . . . According to him, 2,000 years hence human relations will have declined to the level of life in a termite colony." The insects whose lives he studied for years seemed better off than people. "The ant is far less unhappy," wrote Maeterlinck, "than the very happiest...
Your masterful story . . . exposes our age as one of technical achievement, jets and atomic bombs, paralleled by moral and cultural decay. Like the case of Gandhi, it again proves to a material world how dangerous it is to be really good...
Born. To Josephine Medill Patterson Reeve Albright, 35, daughter of the late Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 51, who specializes in painfully detailed paintings of decay and degeneration (Into the World There Came a Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray painted for M-G-M): their second child, first daughter (she had two children by a former marriage); in Chicago. Name: Blandina van Etten. Weight...
...Mahopac pupils from kindergarten through the tenth grade will be asked to brush their teeth twice a day with Amm-i-dent. Free X rays and periodic dental examination will provide a running check on the experiment. Its sponsors hope that the new powder will prove effective against decay, regardless of the tooth-owner...