Word: orders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Research into cancer leads workers into many byways, occasionally into danger. In September, Biochemist Herbert Winegard began to study a substance called ergo-thioneine, a sulphur compound found in abnormal amounts in the urine of cancer patients; it may, chemists think, affect the growth of cancer. In order to make the compound artificially, Winegard had to work with an unstable chemical compound called diazomethane; it is a deadly, odorless yellow gas that can be inhaled without giving a warning sensation of choking. No antidote is known. On Thanksgiving Day he finished his first pilot synthesis at Philadelphia's Lankenau...
...main theme ... is 'the world's disorder and God's design.' May I begin by asking whether we must not deal with this theme, as a whole and in all its aspects, in reverse order? It is written, we should first seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness, so that all we need in relation to the world's disorder may be added unto us. Must we not take this order of topics seriously...
...church in the world, its task in relation to the world's disorder, its outward and inward activity as an instrument for the amelioration of human life, or finally the result of this activity in the Christianization of all humanity and, consequently, the setting up of an order of justice and peace embracing our whole planet? That 'God's design' does not mean something like a Christian Marshall plan...
...early-to-bed Milwaukee, customers can shop at the wide-awake Boston Store at any hour of the day or night, including Sunday, merely by calling Marquette 8-5020. Telephone clerks take the order and send it out next morning. By such round-the-clock selling, the Boston Store has become Wisconsin's biggest retail establishment under one roof, with a current annual sales volume of $40 million...
...Dean's name off his Christmas List. He couldn't make his big Gift as an alumnus, but if he kept forgetting to hand in study cards on time . . . Vag wrote "Merry Christmas" across the top of his card; to it he pinned a check. "Pay to the order of the Vagabond Fund for Forgetful Students," it said, "Ten Dollars...