Word: decays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Novels whose "heroes" are impotent victims of life are at least as old as Franz Kafka and his stories of Central European decay (TIME, April 28, 1947). Let It Come Down shows the point such novels have reached in the last decade or two. In the Kafka world, the victim-hero was still able to react to his miseries with horror. In the Bowles world, the victim-hero is both amoral and numb. He will commit any crime in order to give himself the feeling of having "a place in the world, a definite status, a precise relationship with...
Smal quantities of sodium fluoride are to be mixed with drinking water. This process is calculated to decrease sharply the dental decay rate of children, and to a lesser extent that of adults...
Fluoride for Cambridge water has been under discussion since 1948 when the late Dr. Autino Fioro, then on the staff of the School of Public Health, suggested it after observing the high rate of tooth decay of Cambridge children...
Speaking to the Mid-winter meeting of the Chicago Dental Society, the men asserted that their study of the changes in structure might inaugurate further experimentation on the causes of tooth decay. They added that, eventually the research might show what to put in a dental diet...
...Sognnaes won the prize of the Norsk Tanvern in 1948 for distinguished Norsk Tanvern in 1948 for distinguished decay resulting from Northern Europe's World War II food rations...