Word: dreadful
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Last week doctors hailed an old conqueror of the dread staphylococcus germ. Considered by some scientists a virus, by others an enzyme, this germ-eater is called bacteriophage. Strains of bacteriophage are found in the human intestinal tract, in urine, pus, blood and sewage. About 25 years ago, bacteriophage was first isolated by a British scientist from a dead germ colony. The mysterious substance that killed the bacteria was able to pass through a fine filter and infect other colonies. Some doctors soon dreamed of it as a universal panacea. (Sinclair Lewis dramatized this hope in his novel Arrowsmith.) Compared...
...best drug to cure dread staphylococcus bloodstream infections is sulfathiazole, a sulfanilamide relative which came out last year...
...drugs. But only five, including sulfanilamide and sulfadiazine, can be used in the human body. The other three: ¶ Sulfapyridine, a specific for pneumonia. In the last year, this drug, which is used together with serums, reduced the pneumonia deaths in the U. S. by half. > Sulfathiazole, specific for dread staphylococcic infections...
...heart the foe of the Italian lawgiver. . . . Down the ages, above all other calls, comes the cry that the joint heirs of Latin and Christian civilization must not be ranged against one another in mortal strife. Hearken to it, I beseech you in all honor and respect, before the dread signal is given. It will never be given by us." This plea failed, but last week Winston Churchill made it again, this time over the head of II Duce in a broadcast directly to the Italian people. This time he used his broadsword. He said...
Meanwhile, with the heavy end of the deliveries not beginning till 1943, the Navy, like the rest of the U. S. public, had its fingers crossed. The two-ocean Navy is the U. S.'s $7,000,000,000 insurance policy against the dread possibility that Adolf Hitler may defeat Britain and get the British fleet. But that insurance policy will not be fully in force until the last new ship has had its shakedown...