Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were confronted with any number of first-rate men and institutions from which to select their cover subject. Manhattan's Memorial Hospital was chosen because it offered a complete cross-section of modern cancer research, and its director, Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, was a leading symbol of this effort...
...last of two evening interviews with Gandhi ended only two days before Gandhi's assassination. Sheean has made a painful effort to report everything that was said. He is conscious of the incongruity of the meeting: the tall red-faced
...World. In Blackpool, England, Violet Brindle protested that, in an effort to make her quit her job as a streetcar conductor, her husband had 1) blocked her trolley line by haranguing a crowd about his troubles, 2) burned the skirt of her conductor's uniform, 3) burned the supper peas...
...Marinelli on the treatment of thyroid cancer with radioactive iodine. Since the thyroid gland eagerly absorbs iodine (which it uses to make a hormone), doctors have hoped that a cancerous thyroid would absorb radioactive iodine 131 in sufficient quantity to kill the unruly cells. Unfortunately, this effort was none too successful. The normal thyroid took up nearly all the iodine. The cancerous thyroid cells, particularly the metastases in distant parts of the body, took up so little that they were hardly damaged by the iodine's radioactivity...
...Harvard; and when it comes to the possible presence of secret members of the Party on the teaching staff of an institution. I can only endorse what has been so well said by Grenville Clark in has recent letter to Mr. Ober, namely. "The harm done by the effort to discover even a single clandestine Party member would out weigh any possible benefit...