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Word: foodes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a common vulnerability, the search for a killer drug has been costly, timeconsuming. It is likely that only when the chemical peculiarities of cancer cells are known, said Cameron, "can we interrupt the process for reproduction by interposing chemicals to block the cancer cell's required 'food.' " Currently, researchers must apply one chemical compound after another to each of a dozen types of animal tumors. Once a drug seems effective, it is put through an exhaustive series of tests, so far has always proved to be of limited effectiveness. Needed first is a chart of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Progress Reports | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...didn't or couldn't escape. For the intrepid student who was bogged down in overdue papers during the holiday, or the threadbare midwesterner who could not get home, Lamont was a library without books. The inarticulate and the spare of physique, not to mention those who enjoy food, were decidedly the losers after the lunch-hour battle at Desk One's bargain basement on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bargain Basement | 4/10/1956 | See Source »

Paris hotel now costs from $7 to $12. France's famed food is a bargain: Michelin's Guide lists 2,000 restaurants that will serve a meal for a maximum $1.70 (tip included). In Paris, the visitor can take a $13 nightclub prowl that includes a dive billed imaginatively as "the center of the former underworld," where everything is faked but the check. The Crazy Horse Saloon has a floorshow featuring cowboys, Indians and cowgirl stripteasers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: TRAVEL | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

India's hotels in New Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay are on a par with the Western world's finest, charge around $17 per day for an air-conditioned double room with meals, and serve splendid Indian food, e.g., curried shrimp, Tandoori chicken fried with spices. What to buy in India: fine carved ivory, emeralds and other gems well under U.S. prices, silk scarves and $10 saris, which local dressmakers turn info evening dresses for $40 v. $150 for sari dresses in the U.S. Average touring cost: about $26 per day per person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...major cities Japanese hotels ($9 to $15 for a double room) have all the comforts of home, but in the provinces tourists should be prepared for hard beds, little heat and no inside plumbing. Japanese food is generally heartier than Chinese cooking, with tender steaks and sizzling sukiyaki, a thin-sliced beef dish cooked at tableside. Things to buy: tortoise shell, pearls, lacquerware, porcelain, embroidered kimonos, art, furs, cameras, binoculars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TRAVEL IN THE FAR EAST | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

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