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Word: nones (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble with streptomycin is that it may make patients dizzy. So far, the new neomycin has had only a slight harmful effect, or none at all, on laboratory animals. Like penicillin, neomycin may possibly work when taken by mouth. Streptomycin must be injected. But headline writers who shout that neomycin is already a better drug for tuberculosis than streptomycin get a pained look from Dr. Waksman. He does not know yet when tests on human patients can get started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man of the Soil | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

London newspapers carried a brief factual report of Bolam's conviction, with no hints of vampires. None protested the verdict. The Times, which had printed only official announcements in the Haigh case, even cheered Lord Goddard; it thought its tabloid contemporary guilty of "a plain abuse of the right to report news freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wicked Character | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...murals, for which he is most famed, are often as vast as novels, while the paintings of most of his contemporaries are short stories at best. Among Rivera's own mural-painting countrymen, none can match either his native drive or his European-trained virtuosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...well lead to dismissal. Did that mean even Michigan's most cherished scholars? Said Dean Lloyd S. Woodburne: "If a man is a brilliant scholar, he must be a passable teacher. If a brilliant teacher, he must be a passable scholar." If he is all of one and none of the other, Michigan will want him no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Marked Men | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...began to appear before committees of the legislature to protest against segregation or to support anti-lynching bills. To Texans, his favorite tactic seemed to be tactlessness. Once, when a member of the legislature asked him what he was studying at the state university, he snarled, "That is none of your concern." The angrier the legislators got, the more Addington seemed to like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Lone Star v. Red | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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