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Word: processing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...build better than God. God created men & women with great moral possibilities . . . But sometimes those in power lose faith in their fellow men . . . They take more & more of the fruits of human labor, so that they may, as they think, do more & more for human welfare . . . That process . . . makes human beings into mere cogs in a man-made machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Reluctant Decision | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...most amazing stories of innate instinct that could never have come by any process of evolution concerns Fabre's experiments with the mason bee, experiments suggested to Fabre by Darwin and made after the latter's death. The mason bee (Chalicodoma pyrenaica) builds a house of cement about as big as a thimble, fills it with honey, lays its larva, covers it over and then dies. Fabre took such houses that were built an inch apart and interchanged them, coloring with different colors each house and its bee for identification purposes. He then took the bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...fatal factor from the vaccine, PHS's Dr. J. Frederick Bell believes that he has succeeded. With a team of researchers, he has produced a vaccine without the paralytic factor, which is still effective against rabies in guinea pigs. Vaccine producers throughout the country are testing the process, getting ready to use it in making human vaccine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Man & Dog | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...knew was that it was contained in the brain tissue of animals (usually rabbits) from which the vaccine is made. The trick was to dissolve the brain tissue without killing the factor which prevents rabies. His years of work led to a tedious, complicated process in which the infected brain tissue is repeatedly dissolved, chilled, suspended, centrifuged and filtered until a "washed vaccine," untainted by the paralytic factor, is left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Man & Dog | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...already published three plays, but the Nobel Prizewinning poet and critic has always been more at home with his publishers than with theater people. The Rock (1934), Murder in the Cathedral (1935) and The Family Reunion (1939) all got into print without the test of a stage tryout-a process which prompts most dramatists to fresh visions and revisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Edinburgh | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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