Word: decays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the Communist Party organ Szabad Nep called on the government to crack down on jampec-dressed youngsters. Cried Szabad Nep: "They portray the dismal picture of imitating the American gangster's misanthropic spirit, moral decay and spiritual degeneration . . . Can we treat with indifference the fact that our youth are taught to dance sambas to the tune of the Hungarian czardas...
Nobody knows for sure what causes tooth decay. But since acid-producing bacteria are now blamed by most cavity detectives, an antibiotic to check the bacteria looked like a good bet. Last week, with the blessing of the Food & Drug Administration, the Andrew Jergens Co. offered druggists just such a prescription item: Dentocillin, a tooth powder containing penicillin...
...still not convinced that it was a good idea to use penicillin indiscriminately in the mouth. If there were no unfavorable reactions, they argued, it must be because the penicillin was immediately flushed out of the mouth-in which case it would have little or no effect on tooth decay, either. There was still a lot to be said for a tooth cleanser consisting of nine parts elbow grease and one part water...
...Baggage. Springtime in Paris is a glib, sentimental report which tells a lot more than its uncompromisingly Francophile author intended. Just as The Last Time unwittingly exposed some of the political and social degeneracy that helped France to her downfall, so Springtime airily touches on contemporary blotches of decay that might be just as deadly...
...then, will society be saved? Says Demant: "We may say that one condition of the survival of a civilization is that men shall not believe only in that. Civilization begins to decay when men will not admit the possibility of its death ... If they have no other hope or stay when a culture crumbles, every move to restore it seems but to hasten the crumbling...