Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army is regimented," he said, "business is in a straitjacket . . . Government has usurped the decisions which formerly were made by individuals and regulated by economic laws . . . There has been an increasing tendency on the part of the Government to decide what is good and what is bad for all of us ... Government decides what is and what is not restraint of trade for business, but very carefully avoids deciding what is or what is not restraint of trade when applied to labor unions and other political blocs. "Do not think that the use of this power is only sought...
...current issue of Discovery, moths did not eat wool. Their larvae ate dead animals on which the females deposited their small white eggs. But as soon as man started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty...
Intimations of Posterity: Some ("Two or three plays and a dozen short stories" may survive "for a good many years...
...Taylor's committee came to one hardheaded conclusion: the U.S. must increase its European imports by $2 billion a year or its own exports will wither away and European living conditions will :all to a dangerous level. Unless this is done, he said in effect, much of the good accomplished by EGA (expenditures more han $7 billion to date) will be thrown away...
...fights as an infantry soldier, becomes a wounded hero and learns the worldly lesson that glory lasts but a day. A little while later he learns that the lovely little girl he befriended has become a prostitute. Novelist Marshall never lets the abbe get too far away from a good-looker. During World War II, a beautiful Jewish refugee whom he tries to help is executed by the resistance. Many of his fellow priests are theological hypocrites who do him dirt at every turn, and when blindness threatens, his simple confidence in a miracle cure at Lourdes is disappointed...