Word: markely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lantern-lighted back room, to state our case to the county relief agent. He, not a Catholic, though surprised was immediately interested and agreed that we were entitled to share in the ration issue. He made us a substantial allowance which was a lifesaver (though he did mark me down as drawing the allotment for myself "and family of nine...
Britain's Dr. William Samuel Inman, eye surgeon and psychoanalyst, has some ideas on curing warts that might have come right out of the Mark Twain pharmacopoeia. In the issue of Lancet that reached the U.S. last week, Inman told of a 13 -year-old boy who came to him with ten warts on his thumb. Dr. Inman told him to touch the tip of his tongue to each wart every morning because saliva is peculiarly poisonous to warts, but not to tell anybody. The warts went away...
Radioisotopes have already revolutionized many kinds of research, particularly biology, and are beginning to affect industry. They are chiefly used as "tracers" to mark with exquisite sensitivity the motions or chemical transformations of a substance by "tagging" it with radioactivity. Direct uses are increasing, such as modifying chemical reactions by the radiation from isotopes...
...railroads, which usually talk to the public in conservative full-page ads and statistics, last week tried it with whoop-de-do and the can can. To mark the 100th anniversary of the first train out of Chicago, some 37 railroads and 30 equipment makers chipped in $12 million to make their Railroad Fair the biggest since the New York World's Fair. They packed 50 acres of Chicago's lake shore with sideshows, pageants, new coaches and exhibits, including this iron horse, a replica of the Best Friend of Charleston (1830), first U.S. -built locomotive in regular...
...burglaries and one stickup, are practically forced upon him by the Great Depression. Thus Mr. Cain has it both-ways: his boy can be a college-educated, clean-cut young American and at the same time do the tough things in the tough situations that are the mark of Cain...