Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making a pregnant woman (a non-buyer, no doubt) give up her seat to him. The crowd had come for the sale of the year-the 46 paintings from the collection of the late Margaret Thompson Biddle, who was the ex-wife of Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr. of Philadelphia...
...final score, Braves 8, Dodgers 5, was a far more important statistic. It left last year's pennant-winning Dodgers in fourth place, one game behind the league-leading Braves, and a half game back of both the heavy-hitting Cincinnati Redlegs and the surprisingly potent Philadelphia Phillies...
...victims (about 250,000 in the U.S.) were anxiously wondering about a possible clue to their mysterious disease, which is marked by near-total loss of muscle control. (It happens when the myelin sheath, a fatty insulation around nerve pathways, degenerates for unknown reasons, thus short-circuiting nerve signals.) Philadelphia Bacteriologist Rose Ichelson, 59, reported success in cultivating an obscure microbe, Spirochaeta myelophthora, which she has found in the spinal fluid of MS victims. Inference: multiple sclerosis is caused by the spirochete, and early attack on it should lead to cure or alleviation...
...issue you mentioned a 60-year-old Philadelphia woman who got a skin rash after gathering cashew nuts in Ceylon. When it is picked from the tree, the cashew nut is covered with a hard tough shell that has a thin layer of black oil underneath. This oil is quite corrosive to the skin. It is in the shell, however, which is left in India -in fact is used for fuel-and is not in the kernel that...
Made in U.S.A. Though foundations are as old as the Pharaohs, the one that Heald runs is as much an American product as the model T. Plato may have endowed his academy, and Benjamin Franklin may have left funds for the needy married apprentices of Boston and Philadelphia, but it was not until the formation of the Peabody Education Fund in 1867 that the modern foundation really emerged. By that time philanthropy was taking up a whole new role: not charity alone, but the advancement of knowledge...