Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billions for the Marshall Plan unless it was reasonably convinced that the plan would work; but neither did it want to see Communism spread to the shores of the Atlantic. Last week, scores of Congressmen were poking into the corners of Europe. Some, like South Dakota's Karl E. Mundt and Alabama's Pete Jarman, penetrated the Soviet sector of Berlin, where they could see the problem personified...
Hanns, Hollywood composer and author of a new book criticizing the movies (TIME, Sept. 29), sweated and squirmed under the Washington kleigs as he listened to Committee Chief Investigator Robert Stripling describe him as "the Karl Marx of Communism in the field of music." Like Brother Gerhart, Hanns demanded the privilege of reading a statement to the committee. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas shouted an angry refusal. Thereupon, like Brother Gerhart, Eisler handed out typewritten copies of his statement to newsmen: "This hearing is both sinister and ridiculous. ... I would be delighted to spend as much time as this committee will...
Wallace is expected to reach Cambridge shortly before 7 o'clock this evening, following an afternoon speech in Lowell. He will go directly to the Faculty Club, where Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will tender him a dinner. Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. will be among those in the party...
...Columbia University group headed by Dr. Karl Meyer announced an exciting new clue to the cause of stomach ulcers. The culprit: an enzyme called lysozyme. Lysozyme destroys the protective mucous that lines the stomach and lays the stomach wall open to erosion by acids and other digestive juices. Discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, penicillin's discoverer, lysozyme is also present in tears and saliva, is found in abnormal amounts in the stomachs of ulcer patients, seems to be produced in extra-large quantities during emotional upsets. The researchers hope that a cure for ulcers may be found in chemicals...
These tricks were profitable; the Gershwin concert drew 20,000, as against 6,400 for an all-Brahms concert conducted by the New York Philharmonic's Bruno Walter. Bowl Manager Karl Wecker (whose salary is scaled to Bowl profits) explained: "If I have to play Gershwin to carry Brahms...