Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perfectly plain that General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander was still striving mightily to destroy them. He could be balked only if the Germans could somehow get back to manned and prepared positions where they could stop, regroup and get back into the fight...
...fine branches, *called "mycelium," which secrete penicillin. If the delicate mycelium breaks, production of penicillin stops. Temperature must be kept at 24°C. Worst of all hazards is contamination. The sugary bath in which the mold grows is an ideal medium for bacteria; if any get in, they destroy all penicillin present in three hours. And when all these hazards are survived, the yield is fantastically small. The broth from which powdered penicillin is extracted contains only two to six thousandths of 1% of pure penicillin...
Based on studies of blood plasma carried on by Dr. Edwin J. Cohn of the Med School, a new methid for treating measles has been revealed, consisting of the injection of certain antibodies that destroy the germ of measles. Experiments with this now weapon against measles have been carried on in many places where epidemics of the disease have arisen...
...ruled that the $5,800,000,000 fire-insurance business, which had been supervised by the states, comes under interstate commerce. As such, insurance will immediately become subject to federal supervision under the antitrust laws. The Court brushed aside pleas of 35 state governors that federal regulation would destroy the "sovereignty of the states...
...Beatrice Webb. "She went down to the poor as the saints do; I come up from the poor in a state of flaming rebellion, most blasphemous and unsaintly. Beatrice wanted to socialize the ruling classes and make them do their duty. I wanted to destroy them. Now they are destroying themselves...