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Word: gradualism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent rash of books debunking the proprietary medicine industry, admitted: "We realize that to sell goods, advertising must have a punch. But we must fight to maintain our high standards, in an effort to eliminate the unscrupulous manufacturer. The packaged medicines industry has fought its way through gradual and quickening changes until it is outstanding for its exact standards, its scientific controls and its modern methods of packaging and distribution. In spite of their unfair premise, I believe that the muckraking books have had value at least to the extent of keeping us aware of our responsibilities. Complacency is sweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Castoria & Friends | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...been known for a long time," said Dr. Boas, "that the bulk of the body as expressed by stature and weight is easily modified by ... favorable conditions of life. In Europe there has been a gradual increase of bulk of body between 1850 and 1914. Adult immigrants who came to America from South and East Europe have not taken part in this general increase. . . . Their children, however, born in America, or who came here young, have participated in the general increase of stature of our native population. With this go hand in hand appreciable differences in bodily form. Just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Environmentalist | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...growing deficit in the Department of Hygiene because of a gradual expansion of the demand made on its facilities, the compulsory medical and infirmary fee will be raised from $10 to $20 next year. This action was taken at a meeting of the Corporation Monday afternoon as the result of a report and recommendation submitted by Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Compulsory Hygiene Fee Raised to $20 As Corporation Follows Bock's Advice | 4/29/1936 | See Source »

Last week Newport Industries, Inc., one of the two principal U. S. companies producing naval stores, reported earnings of $295,117 for 1935, as against $161,619 the year before. This indicated no 1935 boom in the sales of ships' logs, rigging or hardtack but the gradual upswing of a modern and highly unmaritime industry. Newport industries, like its only big competitor, Hercules Powder Co., sells products distilled from the pitchy roots of Southern pines. Like Hercules, it has striven throughout Depression to diversify these products and find new uses for them. But while Hercules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Naval Stores | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Down toward the base of the X-chromosome is a sudden bulge followed by a gradual tapering to normal diameter. This is the "turnip segment." It contains, first, a heavy band in two segments, then a faint dotted line, a stronger dotted line, a diffuse double line, a faint dotted line. In the Bar flies Dr. Bridges found this arrangement in duplicate. In the Bar-double it was tripled. In the Bar-reverted it returned to the single sequence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Genes Seen? | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

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