Word: decays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharter said, in part, "Whereas the President and Fellows of ye Colledge in Cambridge have Proposed. . . that ye Bricks to ye Indian Colledge wch is gone to decay May be Removed & Used for an Additional Building to Harvard Colledge. We do Hereby signifye to ye Corporation our Consent to their Proposal; Provided that in Case any Indians should. . . be sent to ye Colledge, they should enjoy their studies rent free in said building; This Dated in Boston, Sept. 19, 1695. Win. Stoughton Ch. Morton Wait Winthrop Gab Bernam Inc Mather...
Kennan, in brief, recommended "a policy of firm containment [of Russia] . . . with unalterable counterforce at every point where the Russians show signs of encroaching"-until the Soviet Union either "mellows" or collapses. Kennan detected in Soviet power "seeds of its own decay." He also believed that the U.S., meanwhile, could show the world that it was a nation of "spiritual vitality." If it could only hold, therefore, the U.S. and democracy would...
...biggest hope is still fluorine in drinking water, which seems to fortify children's growing teeth against decay. The delegates heard that some 26 U.S. communities are now carrying on long-range experiments with fluorinated water, and that results so far are promising. Some impatient delegates, believing that there has been experimenting enough, proposed that all the nation's drinking water be fluorinated without further delay. But the U.S. Public Health Service cautioned that investigators were not yet sure that the fluorine doses under study were safe...
Meanwhile, dentists have discovered a new fluorine treatment for children which also looks promising: a solution of sodium fluoride applied directly to the teeth. Already widely tested, the treatment has been found to reduce caries (tooth decay) up to 40%. PHS officers issued a warning, however, against some other fluorine fads. Not recommended: fluorinated dentifrices (they do no good) and fluorine tablets (unwisely used, they may mottle teeth and bones, cause kidney trouble...
...Festival as a yearly event, Leopoldskron became the center of planning for the festivals and, as Reinhardt's home, the cultural beacon of the city. Reinhardt fled to America before the Nazis, who used the castle for themselves, and with Reinhardt's subsequent death and the war's-end decay, Leopoldskron had lost its reason for existence...