Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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We cannot claim to be a government by the people when in some states only those who can spare the $2 for poll tax are allowed a voice in their government. Mr. Crump takes advantage of the poll tax to further his political status. . . .
Mumbling Through. Russia's haughty silence on the bomb was broken by A. Sokolov of Moscow's New Times. He took a crack at "atom democracy." meaning those in the U.S. who thought a monopoly on atomic bomb production would further the U.S. conception of democracy.
"Away. . . ." Government policy is to treat Japs already in Canada as human beings but to ban all further immigration. But not all Canadians subscribe to this policy. In the House of Commons Chester McLure, Conservative from Prince Edward Island, stood up and intemperately ranted: "Away with those human rats. God...
"To answer [this question], the physicist must attempt to explain the two aspects of his science. There is, first, the creative intellectual activity which constantly pushes back the boundaries of our understanding of natural phenomena. Second, the industrial activity which applies the results of scientific knowledge . . . to satisfy material human...
¶ Colchicine - an extract of the autumn crocus, useful in gout - has been tried in some half-dozen cases of leukemia, the dread blood disease. No one has been saved from leukemia by colchicine, which slows down the division of living cells, but Dr. W. Harding Kneedler of Philadelphia thinks...