Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...families were living in slums. Build 1,000,000 low-rent housing units in the next seven years...
...Western geneticists, have been disgraced and removed from their university posts. Some have died in forced labor camps. An obscure plant-breeder named Trofim Lysenko has been raised by the Soviet state to a sort of genetic dictator. Any Russian scientist who wants to work in genetics must bow low to Lysenko, though his doctrines are scientifically naive (TIME...
...medical school faculty in 1898, he set up the first genitourinary clinic west of the Alleghenies. In those days, VD was a topic for medical people only, and seldom men tioned aloud. Schmidt bellowed loud demands that the medical profession get to work and make VD treatments available to low-income families. He set up a VD clinic which was soon treating more than 2,000 daily, for small fees or no fees...
...help keep the clinic going, he advertised, and that resulted in his being expelled in 1930 from the American Medical Association and the Chicago Medical Society, for "unethical" conduct. Organized medicine, Schmidt retorted, was fighting his plan for low-cost medical care. He was given a clean bill of professional health by half a dozen other medical societies, by Northwestern which kept him on the faculty, and by St. Luke's Hospital, where he was senior attending urologist. Today, he is generally credited with having fathered the laws for premarital and prenatal tests for syphilis...
...modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...