Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, all citizens would have to tighten belts, practice extreme thrift and frugality. Thundered Ta Kung Pao: "The rest of China is poor, but Shanghai looks wealthy. The rest of China lives a spare and simple life, but Shanghai indulges in luxury. The time has come for this abnormal situation to be corrected...
...span of life in the U.S. is still lengthening. Based on mortality figures for 1947 (the latest year for which statistics have been compiled), the average life expectancy of a U.S. child at birth is 66.8 years, the National Office of Vital Statistics said last week. This is almost two years greater than the average for 1939-41. White women can expect to live 70.6 years; white men, 65.2; non-white women, 61.9; non-white...
...eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...
Such dead-earnest studies as Joel Reeves's shadowy Still Life in Green and Bruno Sepka's oil of a snowed-in tenement district which he called Man's Houses, raised the exhibition's level of technical competence but did nothing to lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis' Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain...
...oldtime missionary sat down in a hut with a dozen natives. Today the missionary has largely become the chief of staff of an institution doing work much of which could be and should be done by government agencies. Perhaps missionaries need to get back to the day-to-day life of the African again...The new kind of missionary Africa needs is a moral and spiritual technician [who will] not preach the Gospel vaguely, but relate Christian philosophy to the needs and aspirations of the people where they...