Word: original
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are at least 5,000 children with Cooley's anemia in the U.S. alone, most of them of Mediterranean descent; unlike most genetic flaws, this one has a known geographic origin. Mary Lou and Linda are more fortunate than most victims of their disease. They receive regular transfusions of red blood cells from the Children's Blood Foundation, an unusual organization affiliated with Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center that offers hope to victims of this and other debilitating diseases...
Even without these players, the Jox were still blessed with a large variety of quasi-legit executives of questionable origin...
Field researches the origin of the solar system, the dynamics of interstellar matter, intergalactic matter, and the instability of dilute gases...
...high in the Alps of Southeastern France, were shepherds and mountain climbers who risked the punishing 6,000-ft. trek from the village of St.-Dalmas-de-Tende, 30 miles northeast of Nice. The travelers all brought back tales of mysterious rock carvings, but no one could explain their origin. Were the ancient artists some Carthaginians who once lived in the region? Were they prehistoric men? Now, as a result of on-site study by a French archaeologist, the secrets of the carvings are beginning to come clear...
...ideas, engaging in the political affairs of his time. Swanberg's book is less a biography than an ideological assessment, and it soon becomes an all-out political assault on Luce-for his muscular Christianity, his anti-Communist internationalism, and his notion that divine providence helped in the origin of the American experiment and gave America a special mission to help make the world safe for democracy...