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Word: lethally (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another point for the cynics was that no real progress had been made in its most important project: atomic control. Still another: Russia had used the lethal veto ten times to block action in the Security Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Town Meeting of Two Worlds | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...vaccine, consisting of live virus, is not ready to be tried on human beings. But in its monkey tests it has been 100% successful: after four shots of the vaccine (into the muscles), monkeys proved immune to thousands of times the lethal dose of polio. Their immunity even stood up when the polio virus was injected directly into their brains. The vaccine is the first thus far, the Johns Hopkins researchers hopefully observed, that has produced "solid immunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Against Polio | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...were handed some frightful problems. A different sort of problem is now nagging the scientists themselves: what to do with the deadly radioactive waste products turned out by all the chain-reacting piles? Last week Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, an Oak Ridge physicist, admitted that the problem of this lethal garbage has become serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lethal Garbage | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...from the worst. It was not nearly as lethal as the 1925 twister that killed 689 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Like a Fast Freight | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...first time in five years Batavia echoed to the burst of festive fireworks rather than lethal gunfire. Food parcels were distributed to the poor as the people prepared for a great selamatan (feast). Forgetting for once their mutual distrust, the city's rival Dutch and Indonesian mayors joined forces on the Palace balcony to scatter 1,000 kilograms of copper coins over the jubilant throngs below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Beginning of Lightness | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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