Word: failed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What Price Inflation? If the banks fail to absorb Government loans on a voluntary basis the Government expert comforts himself that he can always sell his bonds to the Federal Reserve. Selling the Government bonds to the banks is of course inflationary because it adds to the amount of credit money in circulation. But selling them to the central bank is the next thing to printing greenbacks. (France followed that road to inflation in the early '20s.) It means one more retreat from what the Treasury itself has said was its wartime objective: to cut down the sale...
Discoverer of the mechanism of sulfa-therapy is Bacteriologist Paul Fildes of London. Certain bacteria, he found, mistake the sulfa-drugs for a vitaminlike substance-probably of the vitamin B complex-which they need for growth. Consuming the pseudo-vitamin instead of the real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so that the blood's white corpuscles can easily destroy their limited numbers. How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino-benzoic acid...
After a spiritless third quarter, the few hundred spectators were re-awakened by an all-out 22 minutes. The left side of the Harvard line with Eli Berman, Jack Calhoun, and Drake forced their way forward again and again, only to fail because of lack of sufficient offensive support from the halfbacks...
...Dartmouth fans will tell you that effective cheering requires coordination and leadership. It is supposed to be cheering, not just yelling. At not one game this fall has Harvard cheering consisted of anything more than incoherent screams. Not only does this fail to support the team, but it destroys the last vestiges of enthusiasm in the stands...
...Naval Aviation Training program (V-5), students are not called until they have had two and one-half years of college. They are required to take the same screen-out examination as V-1 members, and, like V-1 men, may escape service as seamen if they fail by applying for immediate aviation service...