Word: magic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magic of Action. In Paris for three days, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe met to discuss the recommendations which the Council's Assembly had sent up last summer (TIME, Aug. 15 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the ministers approved the admission of the West German Republic and the Saar territory to the Council as an "associate member." But on almost every other question the ministers passed the buck to U.N., to OEEC and other organizations...
...elimination of import quotas by Dec. 15 on half of Western Europe's private trade (this would leave out a large volume of trade carried on by governments). Paul Hoffman made it clear that this measure had not gone very far to satisfy him. "There is no magic in words . . . the magic lies only in action," he said. "If there is a failure to act ... we may have a new kind of dark age in the world...
...Gutenberg Bible has long been a magic term among book collectors. As the "first printed book worthy of the name", copies of it have been valued at above $350,000. Harvard has an outstanding Gutenberg Bible among its rare book collection...
...would kill the little villains without damaging the tissues of their human victims. A few chemical drugs were synthesized. Salvarsan, "606," developed by Ehrlich, proved to be effective against syphilis. Much later, in 1935, came the sulfa drugs, the medical wonders of their day. But none of the chemical "magic bullets" was effective against more than a few disease organisms, and all of them were apt to have dangerous toxic effects on human tissues...
...corn, rice, cotton, peanuts-the bill extended the present 90% parity support through another year. This would fall to 80% in 1951, to 75% the following year. But in either year the Secretary of Agriculture could set support prices above these figures at his own discretion, up to the magic 90% level. Tobacco, the sixth basic commodity, got support at 90% in perpetuity, or as long as the law is unchanged...