Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental barrier which tends to prevent transmission of disease from mother to child takes several months to develop fully; 2) the embyro is more susceptible to infection than the fetus later...
...much for her old-fashioned first husband (Donald Woods). When the "Recession" of 1921 lost him his job and got her one, he left her for another woman, telling her, on his way out: "If I died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation in a den of lions." Pierson, a happy, irresponsible sort, took on Louise and her four children with cheerful unconcern...
...Last week news of a sensational new weed killer which may eclipse all these was spreading rapidly among U.S. farmers and suburbanites. It is a synthetic hormone, called 2-4-D* by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which helped develop it. A very dilute dose (one pound of the chemical to 75 gallons of water), when sprayed on the leaves, kills the toughest U.S. weed-the perennial wild morning glory (also called bindweed). It is also deadly to poison ivy, poison oak, sumac, horse nettle, chickweed, thistles, plaintain, dandelions, ragweed. But it is harmless to animals, is not inflammable, does...
...accelerated program, and drastic curtailment of hospital training open to graduate students has handicapped medical schools since 1939, the report emphasized. From that time until the close of the war only a very few will have been able to receive the training in graduate schools and hospitals calculated to develop teachers and investigators...
...wishing to develop along special lines of practice will, declared the dean, provide a much larger group for whom opportunity must be provided. He expressed the belief that for these men the G.I. Bill of Rights would provide the solution. The responsibility itself will fall jointly upon the medical schools and hospitals...