Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of California) announced a new, promising, greyish-colored antibiotic which he called neomycin. Like streptomycin, it is derived from actinomycetes. a group of tiny organisms that are in a twilight evolutionary zone between molds and bacteria. The first preliminary tests made since it was developed last summer look good; it may, eventually, prove better than streptomycin. Dr. Waksman and Hubert A. Lechevalier, a graduate student who worked with him, reported their discovery in Science...
...then, most of McClure's muckraking fervor was spent, and his health was failing. In 1914, he suspended McClure's. Later he revived it briefly and unsuccessfully, sold out and virtually retired. While McClure's degenerated into a snappy-stories magazine-and folded for good in 1933-McClure lived on at Manhattan's elegant, decaying Murray Hill Hotel (TIME, May 5, 1947). He spent long hours at the Union League Club writing a history of freedom and other forgotten books, and was almost forgotten himself. Last week, at 92, S. S. McClure died...
Rivera's mountainous form has always been a cynosure of neighboring eyes, and even among Mexico City's easygoing artists he is notorious for his good-neighbor policy, but Frida maintains a dignified silence about the women who have thronged his life. "Probably people expect of me a very personal portrait," she explains, " 'feminine,' anecdotal, diverting, full of complaints and gossip . . . Perhaps they expect to hear 'laments of 'all that has been suffered' living with a man like Diego. But I do not believe the banks of a river suffer for letting...
Rivera is building the temple by hand, and by inches, with five Indian helpers, putting into it a good part of the money he gets for his easel paintings. Upstairs will be a studio for himself and atop that a thatched, high-gabled roof in the Mayan style. He hopes to do some sculptures himself after he has moved in, to decorate the outside of the building. "But I have not much time," he says matter-of-factly. "Before I finish...
...impressive faculty, studded liberally with scholars, and practically every man & woman a Ph.D. or on the way to being one. But like many another university, Michigan was worried. Had it placed too much emphasis on scholarship and not enough on teaching? Just how many of its teachers were really good teachers...