Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...base the Communist Party has in this country is to be found among the professionals and so-called "intellectuals." This influence is reflected in the newspaper columns, the radio commentaries, the periodicals and publishing houses and other agencies of communication and education. When it goes into action, it can mold public opinion on many vital issues. Some brilliant feats have been pulled off-for example, the campaign for a second front, and the campaigns against Mihailovich and Chiang Kaishek...
...greatness of Roscoe Pound, whose retirement was announced today, rests only superficially with his record as a teacher. Drawn from the Copeland-Kittredge mold, he has achieved his real stature through hold and original contribution to legal thought in the United States...
...Irish Rose (Bing Crosby Producers; United Artists) is a tired old theatrical joke about a Jewish boy and an Irish-Catholic girl. It was undiluted corn a quarter of a century ago; by now, the course of recent history has covered the feeble joke with a rather repellent mold...
Italian critics insist, however, that despite Allied disclaimers the masterpiece was badly damaged by exposure to humidity after the bombing. They say also that the wall is thick with mold from the rotting of the damp sandbags...
Cheaper & Better? Dr. du Vigneaud does not claim that this process can compete economically at present with the vats of slimy blue-green mold which produce natural penicillin. But he points out that synthetic methods usually become more efficient with practice and as they are better understood. Eventually, synthetic penicillin may be cheap enough to treat the poorest patient...