Word: goode
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need not be. In the first place, four-fifths of the nation's gastric cancer victims are suitable cases, for surgery. If operated on in time, there would be high hope for the majority of them. But the surgery available in most parts of the country is not good enough: although half the patients now die, there are "islands" in this sea of mortality where only one patient out of 20 dies. Among such islands: the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Hospital and Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
Experiments in Colorado date back to 1926. They were abandoned in 1929 as unnecessary when new petroleum reserves started coming in, were revived during the wartime oil shortage. At that time Congress appropriated $30 million for large-scale research in synthetic fuel. It seemed a good gamble; geologists estimate that U.S. shale reserves might yield 365 billion barrels of oil, enough to fill U.S. industrial needs for 180 years at the current rate of consumption...
...With the notable exceptions of the heroine's upholstered sweater and the calculated cuteness of a seven-year-old child actor (Gordon Gebert), Scripter Isobel Lennart and Producer-Director Don Hartman have managed to hide most of the comedy's implausibilities in a mellow blur of unpretentious good humor...
...Manhattan's biggest bookshops, a salesman gestured cynically toward his Christmas customers. "Give them a fat historical novel and they'll trample every good book in the place to get to it." It was a familiar moan in the book business-even when the moaner had to raise his voice to be heard above his booming cash register. Yet as a summary for 1949 the judgment was too jaundiced. It was true that popular puddings were as plentiful as usual, with old practitioners like Frank Yerby, Marguerite Steen and F. van Wyck Mason tirelessly serving them...
...year drew toward its close, a wacky picture book, White Collar Zoo, stood at the head of the non-fiction bestsellers, and a vastly overrated picaresque novel with a panoramic ancient setting, The Egyptian, ruled the current fiction roost. One was a good-natured freak, the other an escape hatch, and neither of them was a suggestive commentary on the year's literary inventory...