Word: minutest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he was following, in his plumbings and probings of the universe, the track of an Intelligence far beyond the reaches of his own." Furthermore, "there has been nothing in human history that has brought mankind closer to the immanence of an infinite creativity than the revelation that the minutest particles of inert matter contain an almost immeasurable power...
...eyes of Orthodox Jews, whose lives are directed in minutest detail by the Shulhan Aruch (a traditional compilation of rabbinic rulings), Reform Jews are "Christians without Christ." Like Christians, they remove their hats for worship, let men sit with women in their synagogues, often use organ music, and even hold their services on Sundays. For them the Psalms and prophets are more important than the Torah. Few of them observe any dietary laws at all, much less the more specialized injunctions against shaving, work on Saturday, etc. And they think almost nothing of intermarriage. Said one Israeli rabbi last week...
...mascara, eye shadow and pancake makeup on shaved areas of rabbits or guinea pigs to test for irritating effects. The neotoxic age has brought DDT and still more lethal sprays, some of which stay on fruits and vegetables all the way to the dinner table. FDA permits only the minutest residues, has devised tests that will detect less than a billionth of an ounce of pesticide...
...with a single swift and uninterrupted sweep of the knife . . . The knife must be minutely examined by a specific method before killing . . . twelve times by the nail and by the flesh of the finger ... It must also be examined after the killing, and if any unevenness, roughness or the minutest indentation is found, the beast is regarded as having been improperly slaughtered, and its flesh . . . may not be consumed by Jews. [Slaughtering must be carried out] by an educated, refined and cultured man, known to be God-fearing...
...accomplishment of Enders & Co. came because it served as a steppingstone for Pittsburgh's Dr. Jonas E. Salk (TIME, March 29), who developed the actual polio vaccine. But to Connecticut-born John Enders, the polio virus discovery is an incident in a life dedicated to battle against the minutest and most insidious of man's microbial enemies, the viruses. To find better ways of combating such children's diseases as mumps, measles, chicken pox and polio, it was necessary first to find better ways of growing the offending viruses in the test tube. The polio virus...