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Word: difference (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the Christian Bible, such a book might contain a wide variety of legends, poems, songs of praise, and parables. It would differ from the Christian Bible, however, in that it would be "consonant with modern science...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murray Asks For 'New Mythology' | 6/9/1959 | See Source »

...stock market. Though European prices have risen sharply in the past six months, stock yields are still higher and price-earnings ratios lower than in the U.S. The analysts found plenty of reasons why U.S. investors need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books. In Leverkusen, West Germany, the analysts spent two futile hours trying to get profit and sales information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Good Buys, But.. . | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...alignments. Since chromosomes carry the genetic material that controls growth and heredity, this maltreatment often kept cells from dividing, or caused mutations. Dr. Heller's waves are so specific that a change of frequency or pulsing can limit their effect to a single kind of cell, leaving slightly different cells unaffected. Since cancer cells differ from normal cells, there is a chance (which Dr. Heller does not want to talk about) that they can be damaged by radio waves that do not hurt healthy tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Influence by Radio | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Doctors still differ about many details of the relationship between a high-fat diet and the high death rate from coronary disease in the U.S., but more and more are coming to a practical conclusion: cut down on the fats without waiting for all the facts. At the same time, they recommend a substantial switch from hard, saturated fats of animal origin to cooking oils of vegetable origin. After Cleveland's Dr. Irvine H. Page suggested that such a diet change was due for wide-scale trial (TIME, Jan. 5), Nutritionist Norman Jolliffe reported that 79 men. aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fats & Facts | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...that one House has better food than another." How one so intimate with the House dining halls can claim not to recognize the often wide discrepancy between Central and independent kitchen food borders on naivete. His notion--that since one agency makes all the purchases, food quality does not differ from House to House--is blatantly false. There's many a slip twixt sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Culinary Bureaucracy | 3/12/1959 | See Source »

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