Word: mold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scientific Vision. The man who made possible this incalculable alleviation of human suffering is Dr. Alexander Fleming, discoverer of the antibacterial effect of the mold from which penicillin is made. He is a short (5 ft. 7 in.), gentle, retiring Scot with somewhat dreamy blue eyes, fierce white hair and a mulling mind, which, when it moves, moves with the thrust of a cobra. Until time's solvent has dissolved the human slag, it will be hard to say who the great men of the 20th Century are. But Dr. Alexander Fleming is almost certainly one of them...
Friendly Place. In the cave, when Commissioner Huxtable saw it last month, were some old rifles, a bullet mold, a saddle, an ornate chair which had been a gift to Lobengula from Queen Victoria. A skull and a few cracked bones were all that jackals and hyenas had left of Lobengula. Of treasure there was no sign. Then & there, Huxtable proclaimed the cave a national monument...
...except for a spell as a vice minister); his goal was to rule the Government through his party, through threats, through the clamor of the rabble. Though Cabinets feared and hated him, he never dominated any of them. But as Japan's best-known fascist, he helped to mold the public mind, supplied the Army with totalitarian catchwords, had much to do with plunging Japan into...
Stalin's Voice. These men proclaim no policy on their own. Their job is to advise Stalin, who makes the final decision. But these men are of the mold which produced Stalin himself, and their thought patterns are his. Once Stalin approves of a policy, it is announced in Foreign Commissar Molotov's dull, stammering monotone...
Other important penicillin news: Drs. George H. Robinson and James E. Wallace of Pittsburgh have used crude green penicillium mold (which produces the drug penicillin) in healing stubborn surface wounds. Highly refined penicillin, on which the armed forces have priorities, is necessary for bloodstream injections, but the doctors did not see why surface poultices needed to be so fancy. Their idea was that the living mold might make penicillin right in the wound. They are not sure what actually happens, but the results are good. With mold-inoculated gauze they cured a man with an acute bone infection...