Word: neutralization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Another medical implication of the process is that it may permit lengthening the chains of harmful virus proteins, thus transforming them into neutral or beneficial materials. Actual germ killing methods may also develop from further investigation...
Most Japanese regard Katayama as a not-too-strong, neutral character-"neither poison nor medicine"-and doubt that his Cabinet will do much. The new coalition has already made its unhappy mark on protocol-happy Imperial Household officials. At this week's formal investiture, several Ministers showed up without dress coats...
...Palestine, where big-power rivalry (always in the background) had not yet been clearly defined, the U.N. at last was able to take almost unanimous action. The General Assembly voted, 46 to 7, for the plan backed by the U.S.: a special commission of eleven small "neutral" states* with the "widest powers" to investigate every phase of the Palestine problem...
Witness & Jury. The U.S. had disappointed both Zionists and Arabs by refusing to show what sort of solution it favored. Instead, the U.S. stuck consistently to its position that there was no point in discussing Palestine until a neutral U.N. inquiry commission had studied the problem and made its recommendations. Neither Britain nor the U.S. wanted to serve on such a commission. Both wanted it made up of a small group of small, disinterested states. Said Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan: Britain cannot properly be "at times in the witness stand, and then . . . with the jury." Retorted Yugoslavia...
...cover of the new Radditudes is white--neutral. That may be symbolic of Spring or finals, but it also represents the quality of the printed material on the inside pages of the magazine. The stories will jar nobody, and disappoint only a few, for they are almost without exception more skillful and a lot less neurotic than the last crop, but there is little that rises above the higher stages of mediocrity...