Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their research to avoid surgery, Grimson and associates found an answer in banthine, a new synthetic drug which they had been testing on high blood pressure. Banthine, taken by mouth in tablet form four to six times a day, has the same effect as cutting the vagus nerve; it slows down stomach contractions so that food is retained there for as long as six hours, and it reduces the flow of corrosive acid...
...field in blue. When a "red" field is on the tube, a red segment of the disc makes that frame look red. In the same way, "green" fields are made to look-green. The three one-color fields, following one another quickly, are blended by the eye to form a full color picture...
...Chinese Communist arrest of our Mukden Consul, Mr. Angus Ward, which of course makes any recognition of the Poking regime by us at the moment impossible. To those Chinese Communists who want to have continued relations with the United States, this arrest may have seemed like a smart form of pressure; but of course we will never yield to it. For the Russians, it is a convenient way of keeping China out of contact with us. This Russian angle should be carefully noted...
...building will be low and angular; this is nothing new to those who know Mr. Wright's work. The most important and interesting part of any theater, however, is the stage. In this case the stage juts out into the orchestra in a large semicircular form, reminiscent of the Grecian theater. Thus actors and audience are brought into more intimate contact than is possible with the present "picture frame stage...
...have found this to be a very effective form of punishment," DeVane said...