Word: due
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read this that I realized how bad my eyesight had become. I promptly went to see a doctor who found I had perfect vision but recommended a pink boric acid eyewash morning and night. He also gave me some medicine for my liver, which had become enlarged and inflamed due to too much riding over Donbas roads...
...long statement on Mexico's oil problem last week, President-elect Miguel Aleman omitted such comments but hinted that mismanaged Pemex was due for drastic overhaul. It was gossiped that Pemex was losing $100,000 a day; it teemed with high-salaried, incompetent political lame ducks; it was constantly in trouble with labor. And in eight years it had failed to fit the oil industry into the domestic economy. It was still geared for export. Its pipelines ran down to the sea instead of to home markets in the big inland cities. A new refinery outside Mexico City would...
...Partly due to extreme shortsightedness on the part of the Faculty, the overcrowding of the reading rooms remains a problem that must be remedied quickly. Each professor should give an alternate list of required reading. If British books are unavailable, then less notable, but adequate American authors whose books are now in print should be substituted. Such a system would insure a sufficient amount of reading material for all students...
Arvid J. Burke and Bertrand W. Hayward comprise the due which will lecture to the graduate students. Burke, who is the director of studies for the New York State Teachers Association, is scheduled to speak on Educational Administration while Hayward, who is the principal of Fitchburg High School, will be concerned with Secondary Education...
Among the causes of male "sterility" (i.e., subnormal sperm production): mumps (after puberty), gonorrhea, malaria, hot baths, exposure to X rays and other atomic radiation. The chief cause of female sterility is blocked tubes. But contrary to popular notion, absolute sterility is rare. Failure to conceive is often due to fatigue, overweight, nervous strain, emotional tension between husband & wife, or simply too infrequent sexual relations. On more than one occasion, the Cleveland doctors have even discovered patients who were more innocent than Adam...