Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larger committee, headed by Walter J. Rauschenbush '50, was formed last spring. It is composed mainly of laymen, who are expected to bring fresh points of view to this examination of the Council. This committee will take the broad outlook, considering not only how the Council fulfills its function, but what exactly its function is. It will, presumably, touch on the basic question of the elected versus the partly-appointed body, and evaluate the three years of elected Council...
...Progress. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Elizabeth Slaney called attention to a special feature planned for her new $175,000 drive-in theater: a button system for every car to bring a vendor on the run with a fresh supply of popcorn...
Stylist. In Rio de Janeiro, Decio de Souza Santos, who made a habit of sending a letter of apology to each of his burglary victims, was arrested when he showed up at the stationer's to buy a fresh supply of his favorite note paper...
...screening of buildings have been added to the force since 1898, when it was shown that malaria parasites (tiny protozoa of the genus Plasmodium) spend part of their life cycle in female Anopheles mosquitoes. The mosquito picks up the parasites from infected humans, nurtures them and injects them into fresh victims. The parasites run through the bloodstream of their victim, causing periodic fevers at the peak of their reproductive cycle; many lodge in the spleen, causing local pain...
...partly wiped, entering the bodies of living women. The contagion passed from his fingers to the living tissues, to wounded tissues. He saw the women fever. He heard them scream. He saw them die." Finally Semmelweis knew the reason why more mothers in the First Division ward died: students fresh from the dissecting room were allowed to examine them...