Word: erful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this purpose. One trouble was that it smelled like decayed fish and tasted lit tle better. Merck settled for selling its product, trade-named Cuemid, as a rem edy for the intolerable itching that often goes with jaundice. Duke University's Dr. Robert L. Fuson wondered wheth er, with its flavor improved, cholestyramine might not be used to lower cholesterol. Mead Johnson Laboratories, famed for many-flavored Metrecal, had the same idea. They gave it an orangeade taste, trade-named it Questran...
Most businessmen credit U.S. merg er makers with the invention of cor porate conglomerates - companies that grow by garnering others in unrelated fields. Not Britain's Leonard J. Matchan, 55, president and chairman of London-based Cope Allman Interna tional Ltd., who was in New York City last week to plug a venture...
...Medicare, and to more millions in low-income brackets who would be covered (the states permitting) by Medicaid. Doomsayers saw in both programs socialized medicine and the welfare state at its worst; they foresaw hordes of oldsters jamming the hospitals under Medicare and greater hordes of ne'er-do-wells chiseling on Medicaid...
That Charlotte tried to escape in her writing is well documented in this painstaking biography. British Scholar Winifred Gerin has already written biographies of Anne Brontë and ne'er-do-well brother Branwell. A decade ago, she moved to the Brontës' native vil lage of Haworth, the better to hear the moaning of the Yorkshire moors that the girls loved. She has read 20 years' worth of Blackwood's magazine to trace the sources of Charlotte's erudition and deciphered trunkfuls of childish scrawl to interpret her juvenilia. If the result...
Memoir or anti-memoir - by any name, the book is bound to be a bestsell er. All through his adult life Author Andre Malraux has been I'homme en gage, a committed man whose activities capture the popular imagination. As a young student of Oriental archaeology, he was once jailed for trying to cart away from the Cambodian jungle some ancient Khmer statues that he admired...