Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done it? He did not say. Police suspected a widespread plot. But next day, when Gandhi again appeared at his prayer meeting, he begged the police to be merciful with the youth: "We should not harbor hatred." One of his listeners, deeply moved, shouted that Gandhi should proclaim himself a reincarnation of God. The Mahatma smiled. But his worshiper persisted. Then Gandhi's weak voice rose almost to an angry shrill: "Sit down and be quiet...
...Gollan's work, said Dr. Maurice B. Visscher, head of Minnesota's department of physiology, makes the possibility of an anti-polio vaccine "very much greater than ever." But a lot of work remains to be done...
...alcohol solution, then precipitated the virus by spinning it in an ordinary laboratory centrifuge. He worked with MM (mouse-monkey) virus, which does not affect human beings; but his method, he believes, can be used to isolate viruses that attack humans. When that is done, researchers can begin work on a vaccine...
Impish Charles MacArthur had done famously as a police reporter for McCormick and Hearst, playwright (The Front Page), screenwriter (The Senator Was Indiscreet) and husband (to Helen Hayes...
Treasure of Sierra Madre (Warner) is one of the best things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk; and the movie can take a place, without blushing, among the best ever made. But unlike many films of high quality, it does not wear its art on its sleeve. This admirable reticence may earn Treasure some peculiar awards. Movie trade papers are treating it as a western; Daily Variety called it "action stuff with heavy masculine appeal." Reviewer Virginia Wright wrote in the Los Angeles Daily News: "[The] audience . . . seemed to find [Treasure] hilariously funny and, once having decided...