Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...image of the then powerful British monarchy was vivid in the minds of the Founding Fathers; they were determined not to let the presidency become any such tyranny. The process by which the British Prime Minister and his Cabinet share responsibility with Parliament, and keep their jobs only by controlling a parliamentary majority, did not evolve until after the U.S. Constitution was written. In 1940, under this system, discredited Neville Chamberlain gave way to Winston Churchill without the necessity of an election. In the midst of the delicate Potsdam Conference last year, Labor Party leaders translated a victory...
...most significant decision was procedural: the Ministers would set aside their disagreements on each treaty, pass on to other treaties and attempt to work out all remaining disagreements later. Obviously, this process gave more latitude for horse-trading, however remote it might be from a peace based on justice...
Theologian Brunner has high hope that the "awakening" in the U.S. will check an overemphasis on social-service Christianity that he opposes and deplores. His warning: "Americans developed the social side of Christianity much further than has the European church; but in the process you have been losing, to a high degree, substantial preaching. It would be the end if this went...
Next step: to separate synthetic penicillin in pure crystalline form. The most successful separation method used two liquids which do not mix. Since one dissolved penicillin more readily than the other, penicillin concentrated in it, leaving unwanted substances behind. The process had to be repeated again & again, but finally the biochemists got their pinch of brown crystals: the first pure man-made penicillin...
Cheaper & Better? Dr. du Vigneaud does not claim that this process can compete economically at present with the vats of slimy blue-green mold which produce natural penicillin. But he points out that synthetic methods usually become more efficient with practice and as they are better understood. Eventually, synthetic penicillin may be cheap enough to treat the poorest patient...