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...some areas, and the President will surely be stalled in others. Lobbyists will still be influential; an alliance of Dixiecrafts and Republicans will probably be able to block some important bills. But the importance of the state of the government this year is that now, after a brief Republican hiatus, the movement towards the human welfare society in America will continue. The President must fight just as hard in the future as he fought before November's election. But he now has a Congress that can be managed by Fair Dealers, and expectations of victories are more than justified...
Again in full swing after the hour exam hiatus, the Student Council's Service Fund drive last night reported that it has collected $13,000 in cash and an additional $5900 in pledges...
...hiatus might not have been so long if during that period Germany's Gerhard Domagk had not discovered sulfa drugs (TIME, Dec. 28, 1936), which began to save lives so dramatically that the experts dropped everything else to test them out. In 1933, Dr. Fleming himself lent a hand with M & B 693, also known as sulfapyridine. The sulfas almost seemed to be the dream drugs he had looked for. They stopped deadly streptococci, even cured pneumonia. But the more sulfa drugs were used, the clearer it became that they 1) sometimes delayed healing by irritating wound walls...
...social and then to natural sciences. There have been vogues of cure-alls--"social psychology," "philosophical science." The war has pointed up these sicknesses. And now at Harvard several committees are at work to study the case of the "irrelevant" liberal arts, and to plan, during the war's hiatus, a revitalization...
Questionnaires are being mailed in installments of 10,000 a week, with a hiatus covering the weeks of the Christmas holidays, until all 80,000 have been sent...