Word: men
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...men who come to work, Brazil is determined to lend all the support it can. "Here man is overwhelmed by the enormity of nature," says SESP Physician Carlos Guimaräes. "But we are going to make the Amazon a safe and healthy place to live. Then it can produce wealth and abundance...
Medical researchers had begun to despair of finding chemical cousins of sex hormones from which the sex-character stimulation could be divorced. But now that chemists have turned the trick with male hormones, they hope to repeat it with female hormones. This could be important to men, in far greater numbers than to breast cancer victims, because female hormones appear to afford some protection against the major dangers of atherosclerosis. But many men have refused them because of the feminizing effects from the doses usually given...
...than $30 million by the time the shrine is completed ($18 million has been raised so far). Says Monsignor Thomas J. Grady, fifth director of the shrine project: "God was good to us. In the five years it took to build the upper church-with as many as 200 men a day working 200-300 feet up-no one was killed or seriously injured...
...They dropped three men back on him when he got a pass, stalled when they got the ball, but no trickery tried by the champion Boston Celtics could stop the Minneapolis Lakers' agile, husky (6 ft. 5 in., 230 Ibs.) Elgin Baylor from pouring in 64 points to give his team a home-court 136-115 victory, break by one point the scoring record of the National Basketball Association set in 1949 by Philadelphia's jump-shooting Joe Fulks...
Many astronomers argue that only colossal pride prevents men on Earth from concluding that there are other people on other planets. In the Milky Way alone, there are probably billions of planets revolving around stars similar to the sun. A conservative guess is that 100,000 of the planets support some form of life. It is an easy step from there to conclude that they support rational creatures and a civilization...