Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is need for such a combination because streptomycin, more than any other of the antibiotics, tends to develop resistant strains of germs. Some strains learn to live with it, even becoming dependent on it-as if a rat began to fatten on rat poison. The resistant strains can be highly dangerous; if they infect another victim, he cannot be cured by streptomycin or anything else yet known...
...judgment, helps to pull it down. Thus, though the story has been greatly simplified, the effect is less movingly simple. For one thing, formal primitive speech often sounds stilted when spoken. But on the stage, sometimes a gesture is better than any speech; sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars a wave of honest feeling brings a backwash of sentimentality; too often the show feels that the more it dots its i's, the more the audience will dab at theirs...
...Council's meeting in Chicago adopted Harris' program calling for federal grants-in-aid ranging from $200 to $1,000 a year for students who have both need and ability...
...total return on investment last year, but there remains the danger that the recession may suddenly worsen and thus take a bigger chunk out of investment income. However, the University takes comfort in its continued conservative investment policy. Harvard's capital is much safer than that of schools whose need for higher returns has made them switch to more risky investments...
...Times figures show that the majority of colleges would just as soon get along without any Federal aid. 19 per cent of the private colleges say they need aid to continue in operation, but most of the others admit that they fear Federal aid would mean Federal interference in their policies...