Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation . . . Rome has been particularly zealous in the fight against communism. But . . . consciously or unconsciously, she has never kept a clear distinction between communism as a system of economics, the materialistic ideology on which it thrives, and the pressure methods used to assure its triump. . . As much as we may dislike the economics of communism, we hold them to be a free matter of discussion, subject to democratic procedure...
...centralized power of the Roman Catholic Church, its strong international organization, its methods of authority, explain partly its effectiveness," Barrois concludes. "Looking back on our divided Protestantism, we feel, by contrast, weary and powerless. Seeking for a remedy, we may be tempted to copy the methods of the Roman Church, and to play our own game of power politics. I say 'tempted,' for this is nothing else than a temptation, the temptation of the easy way. We know as Christians that there is really no easy way through the difficulties of an unchristian world...
...Meanwhile, the University of Connecticut flatly refused to send in any book lists to the Un-American Activities Committee. Heads of other colleges protested. Said President Francis P. Gaines of Washington and Lee University, "Can you imagine a group of erudite Congressmen telling us what books our professors may use [in] literature and social anthropology...
...explanation, found that in such cases the patients had died because of a deficiency of potassium in the blood. When potassium was added in new cases, the patients picked up quickly and survived the operation. Dr. Rhoads believes that such improved surgery and treatment, combined with sufficiently early diagnosis, may save from cancer one-third to one-half of the people who now die of it. That would mean saving the lives of 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 Americans now living who are destined, on the basis of present statistics, to die of cancer...
...Chester Stock, head of the Division of Experimental Chemotherapy, this record is by no means discouraging. As the records and experience accumulate, the scientists are learning how to predict whether a compound is worth testing. If a new one has a slight effect, one of its close relatives may prove better. And each slightly successful drug sets biochemists to figuring out why it worked...