Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanton wench was Cleopatra but a politician whose love of Egypt was greater than the love she bartered with lonely Roman warriors. How long she and Mark Antony lingered in Paraetonium (now Mersa Matruh) history has forgotten. The city crackled in the sun, crumbled into decay, remained virtually forgotten some 2,000 years until last week another Roman warrior sought to enter its now squalid streets. He was Marshal Rodolfo Graziani...
Demosthenes blamed the decline of Greece on the decay of patriotism among its citizens, the decay of probity among their leaders. After Alexander the Macedonian, many people conquered Greece. The Romans conquered it in the Second Century B.C. Thereafter the Hellenes, no longer masters of the civilized world, were overrun by Latins, Franks, Slavs, Bulgars, Turks. Their culture and even their language disintegrated. Their country was pauperized and depopulated. For 20 centuries the government they had devised was only a memory. Then democracy once more stirred in the world, on the shores of the Atlantic. A few patriots and idealists...
...Romans, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, came & went, and still Persia was going strong. Not until the 18th Century, after some 6,000 continuous years of art, culture and prosperity, did Persia finally bite the dust. Even then it was European commercial competition, more than her own decay, that killed...
...their slick technique of drilling and filling, dentists have little more knowledge of the causes of tooth decay than they had 100 years ago. Dental caries (tooth decay) is the most prevalent disease in the U. S., attacks more than 95% of the population...
...Harold Aaron of Manhattan, author of a book on constipation, spent a year collecting many of the latest medical wrinkles that laymen need to know. Last week he published a cheery home companion. Good Health and Bad Medicine (McBride; $3), giving scientific advice on colds, bellyaches, feet, tooth decay, pimples, laxatives, painkillers, hair tonics...