Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role goes to Theodore Allegretti V-12. He plays the part of a frightened young man who becomes the local Sinatra by claiming to have killed his father. Opposite him, playing the feminine lead of Pegeen Mike, is the Idler president, Leslie Paul, who finds herself overcome by his lethal charms. Out of luck, is Shawn Keogh, played by Ingersoll Cunningham V-12, a timid suitor, sever quite ready to take the big plunge...
...University of Michigan for a Ph.D. when he joined the Army in 1942. His experiment was done on a 45-day furlough at the Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology in Philadelphia. Says Corporal Cornman in this week's Science: "'[These studies] have revealed a selective lethal effect of penicillin upon rat and mouse sarcoma cells, of which a full account will be published later...
...Crow's loud and lethal gadgets went into action again last week when some 100 German planes whisked over London sowing incendiary bombs, the worst of which landed in fashionable residential districts. Two famous squares were well scorched, an embassy and a legation partly burned out. London's defenders shot down 13 of the attackers, speedily put the fires...
Malaria is not ordinarily much of a killer, but in Upper Egypt last week it was as lethal as the plague. Accepted estimate was that in two years it has caused about 86,000 deaths in Qena and Aswan provinces (pop. about 1,000,000), some 400 miles from Cairo. Other estimates run as high as 200,000. Whole villages have been wiped out and, as in plague times, bodies lie unburied in the streets. Only in India and China, where malaria's pernicious forms are common, are such epidemics prevalent...
Between 1928 and 1930, a Russian scientist named B. Tokin noticed that "a paste prepared from a small amount of macerated onion, garlic or other allied plant immediately emits volatile substances which are lethal to yeast cultures," frogs' eggs, protozoa (one-celled animals which live in water), etc. Two years ago Drs. Toroptsev and Filatova began grinding up fresh onions and garlic to see whether the smell would do any good to infected wounds of rabbits...