Word: existing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times as cancer-potent as ordinary tar from whole tobacco: in five months all mice painted with a 5% solution from tests at 880° had papillomas (precursors of cancer), and 27% had full-blown cancer. The tar from the wax contained all the cancer agents now known to exist in small amounts in cigarette tar, but Dr. Wynder doubts that these substances are the only cause of the lung-cancer increase, suspects there are others in the tar. One tentative conclusion: dewax the tobacco to make it less harmful. Dr. Wynder did not say what cigarettes would taste like...
...facet of national economic life. The Federal Trades Commission, through its power to insure "fair methods of competition," exercises vital control over any firm engaging in commerce. The Federal Communications Commission, through its licensing requirements makes radio communication a privilege rather than a right. Altogether twenty-nine such agencies exist...
...manuscripts themselves were packed away in 36 cases and locked up in the Ottoman Bank at Amman, Jordan, from which they were returned to Jerusalem for study only last month-some of them slightly moldy and spotted from the damp vault. (Complete photographs of the manuscript material exist, but direct examination is necessary to the delicate process of matching and fitting fragments...
...cigarette box. In the meantime, the scrolls have opened a wide new door to the study of Christianity. For the people of Qumran and the early Christians shared the same Hebraic theological tradition as well as the same language - in an era for which Aramaic and Hebrew sources hardly exist...
...dares to face the moment of truth. Hero Charlie is all set to chuck his scruples and climb in the sack with a ludicrously pathetic little bohemienne. But then he realizes what a dope he is to be prowling the streets after something that doesn't seem to exist, when all the time a cozy little wife is waiting for him back home. Suddenly he knows that he "loves" his wife. The conclusion is apparently supposed to be a daring one. At the risk of offending the entire prostitute population, Playwright Chayefsky has come out firmly on the side...