Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transmits malaria) is a shy creature of habit. Except in a few areas, she does no hunting outdoors, seeks her victims in their homes. She slips unobtrusively into a hut, rests a while on a wall, buzzes down to gorge herself on a drop of blood (often, in the process, infecting her victim with the parasites in her saliva), then rests on a wall before heading out. In a dwelling whose walls have been sprayed with DDT, these pauses are her undoing. As long as six months after a spraying, there is enough DDT left to kill her soon after...
...repulsive midden from her imagination, there is a kind of dirty-faced innocence about the book, and an undeniable storytelling ability. Half-illiterate when she wrote the novel, Berthe Grimault had help from a village postmaster who barbered the grammar, laundered the sex. Currently, a proper laundering is in process: at the Grove, a British finishing school, the staff is trying to get Berthe to behave as if she were less familiar with country matters...
Anderson's best running to date has been done over the 600-yard distance. He won this event easily in the Tufts meet last Wednesday night and set a new Harvard Cage record in the process. However, the K. of C. meet directors requested that he run in the longer race Saturday night, and he has agreed...
White pointed out that the Library must grow if it is to maintain its position of leadership. "Growth means that the Library must deal with publications in increasingly obscure subjects and languages, that its catalogues must become increasingly complicated, and that even the relatively simple process of circulating books becomes more costly...
...politicians have not yet exhausted their wit in discovering new ways of profiting from the city's drive for improvement. In the cause of "progressive industrialization," certain well-situated individuals appear to be seeking to palm off worthless land as valuable, realizing a handsome bit of cash in the process...