Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Japan might dictate a declaration in the Pacific by further encroachments. Jap soldiers already held Portuguese Timor, were bullying their way through the streets of Portuguese Macao, across the Pearl River from Hong Kong.
Before penicillin can be called a cure for syphilis, says Dr. Mahoney. it must succeed in a huge number of cases over a long period. Such a workout must wait until more penicillin is available, probably after the war. But Dr. Mahoney, whom other syphilologists call a "sound" man, was...
The idea that China could well use as many highly trained journalists as were available long ago impressed itself on Vice Minister of Information Tong. "While touring the U.S. with Madame Chiang last winter, Columbia-Man Tong enlisted the aid of Columbia's Dean of Journalism Carl Ackerman. They...
Anyone who is baffled by mathematics beyond the multiplication tables can imagine with awe the Brobdingnagian mental efforts involved in inventing a clerkproof, 5,500-part machine that adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides with the flick of a finger. Last week a 52-year-old Swedish inventor named Carl M...
Of balladry, Kipling was an unsurpassable modern master. Eliot points out "his singleness of intention in attempting to convey no more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no...