Word: hadly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Thanksgiving just weeks away, Arthur Flemming last Monday gave cranberry growers the short end of the wishbone. Experimenting with "aminotriazole," a weed-killing chemical that some Pacific Northwest growers use in their bogs, government chemists had produced cancer in the thyroid gland of a mouse. "Just to be on...
Even though the bulk of the crop--from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Michigan--was uncontaminated, major supermarket chains took cranberries off the grocery shelves. With a record crop of 125 million pounds to sell, the indignant industry called Flemming's action "unnecessary, untimely and imprudent." The Secretary had embarked, said...
"Until recently, most atmospheric research has not been done in physics laboratories," Goody continued, noting that he had begun work on his plan for the fellowships only a year ago.
What Is the Answer? As young U.S. expatriates (including Ernest Hemingway) fled the middle class and the Middle West, they took refuge in "the mature Gertrudian bosom," as Van Wyck Brooks put it, "much like that of their far away prairie mothers, but of a most gratifying sophistication. Miss Stein...
Gertrude Stein had survived World War II by a year when a malignant abdominal tumor forced an operation. Coming out of anesthesia, she was sibylline to the end. Her next-to-last words were, "What is the answer?" And her last, "In that case, what is the question?"