Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...focus of public attention might help improve the situation further; but mining would remain the most dangerous trade a man could follow. The point was that last week John Lewis-a man who has spoken much but done little about mine safety-was using the hard lot and misfortunes of his miners to wreak revenge on a Government which had dared bring...
Europe's most prevalent symptom is a racking cough. Its undernourished people, though spared (thanks to UNRRA and private relief) from the dramatic pestilences that usually follow war, are succumbing by thousands to the insidious white plague of tuberculosis. Last week an Associated Press survey in Europe confirmed what many doctors have feared: T.B., on the rise for the first time in a century, is now Europe's No. 1 killer...
Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will open the series next Monday with a lecture on "International Astronomy." Professor John C. Duncan of Wellesley will follow on Friday, April 25, with a talk on "The Nebulae...
...this should be added the comment by George S. Forbes, Chairman of the Chemistry Department, who noted that "our course offerings are compact, and carefully integrated. Our teaching fellows and instructors follow the students' progress closely in the laboratories for the various courses... All department members advise their quotas of concentrators... We feel that our staff performs many of the functions of those officially designated as tutors...
...foresee the revolution a-coming, McCarthy poured his oil profits into a natural gas company, set out to sell it to industry. Six months ago, he started a $3,000,000 plant to produce chemicals, hoped to show the way for other Texans to follow...