Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, several years ago. She noticed that Streptomyces griseus, the mold that produces bacteria-killing streptomycin, also produces a substance that is deadly to fungi. She separated it from the "beers" (solution in which the mold had been growing), called it "actidione," and tried it on fungi that cause human diseases...
...drug to cure human ailments, it proved worthless. The Upjohn Co. gave the new drug to the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at East Lansing to see what effect it had on plants. In strong solutions, it killed young bean and oat seedlings. Apparently actidione was good for nothing...
...lady with her dripping throat slit from ear to ear, was indignantly rejected because her skirt was rucked up above one knee. And, from the start, profanity was simply not tolerated. When the eaters of Sweeney Todd's delicious pies were told that their mouths were full of human flesh, they delicately exclaimed: "Good gracious! . . . Confound...
...practical ways--voting for extensions of social security, Federal aid to education, social development of natural resources. Instead of opposing all social legislation out of hand they are, most of them, always thinking up something new, using a new mechanism (i.e. the federal government) to preserve human values on the one hand and business enterprise on the other...
...faithful. If they back politicians like Martin, giving him aid and comfort in cases such as this, then we are likely to remain out of power for a long time to come. If moves are made by G.O.P. leaders to strike hands with those despicable advocates of human enslavement from the south who are currently writhing in the consequences of their own miscalculations, the party will be faced with a reverse far more serious than the recent one on November second. And it will not be enough to disown these misguided reactionaries. We must give active support...