Word: developed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...habits have changed radically. He saves much more than he used to. Big insurance companies, which once considered Negro business more trouble than it was worth, now go after it. Loan companies, car dealers, etc. find Negroes excellent credit risks. There are signs that the Negro has begun to develop a large, strong middle class. Some Negro leaders, in fact, believe?and they do not consider it a bad thing?that the Negro is turning into the nation's new Babbitt...
...Colorado last week, Dr. Gardner Middlebrook of Denver's National Jewish Hospital confirmed the doctors' suspicions, but calmed their fears. Isoniazid-resistant bacilli did indeed develop, said Dr. Middlebrook, but in tests with lab animals, the new bacilli proved to have lost the old virulence. And they seemed to have lost the ability to grow and reproduce in healthy tissue. Dr. Middlebrook is pretty sure that isoniazid "will not solve all the problems of tuberculosis." But he is ready to call it "the most remarkable chemotherapeutic agent yet discovered for an infectious disease...
...radioactive antibodies had concentrated in the malignant tissue. The hope: to transport destructive amounts of radioactivity to human cancer tissue selectively, and without damage to normal tissue. ¶ There is no known cure for leukemia, the blood-corpuscle cancer to which children seem particularly prone, but medicine has developed several methods of controlling it for limited periods. Five doctors from Memorial Center reported a new addition to medicine's weapons against leukemia: a chemical known as 6-mercaptopurine. One hundred and seven patients, 45 of them children with acute leukemia, have been treated with the drug to date; about...
...kernel of the group tutorial lies in the group's freedom to work on and develop, at its own speed, any projects that hold its interest. By denying tutorial self-direction the English department has rejected most of the deliberative, personal aspects of the sessions and reduced them to little more than, as one sophomore put it, "glorified section meetings...
...attests to being "versus superstition," McCurdy does admit one ritual he performed faithfully in the days when high jumper Ty Smith was on the team. "Every time he jump, I'd turn away," confessed the track coach. But McCurdy maintains that he hasn't been coaching long enough to develop any real superstitions...