Word: gram
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comes up to the level of Fulton Lewis Jr. Checking on a twelve-minute ad lib broadcast by Lewis from the Democratic Convention Hall in Chicago, McKay discovered only three and a half errors, a score that left him breathless. Close to Lewis on the McKay charts is Raymond Gram Swing who consistently scores a brilliant 17, has a perfect command of French...
...London Economist called the U. S. mood "deliberately myopic ..." a mood that "should be very familiar to Englishmen, for it is almost exactly similar to that in which we spent the year 1938." The Economist cited Radioracle Raymond Gram Swing: "Just now we appear to be passing out of our Baldwin era and approaching our Munich era. We are entitled to the patient understanding of any Englishmen who can recall their own recent evolution...
...that there must be agents in the soil capable of breaking up almost anything organic, piling up experiments year after year. Dr. Dubos recently told how he isolated from soil bacilli a substance called "gramicidin," which-in experimental animals-kills pneumococci of five kinds, streptococci, diphtheria bacilli, and other "gram-positive" (blue-staining) germs, possibly including the tubercle bacillus (TIME, April...
Others were quick to follow his lead. Last week Drs. Salman A. Waksman and H. Boyd Woodruff reported discovery of agents from soil which kill "gram-negative" (red-staining) germs-such as those of typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera. But scientists are going ahead cautiously. The protective value of both "gram-positive" and "gram-negative" destroyers has yet to be tried on human beings...
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