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...came the sulfa drugs and a revival of interest in germ-killing chemicals. An Oxford research team composed of Pathologist (now Sir) Howard Florey and Chemist Ernst Chain dug up Fleming's moldy paper and did the tests all over again. By 1941 they got enough penicillin to prolong the lives of two patients. World War II had come to Europe and was threatening the U.S.: men, money and materials were lavished on the perfection and manufacture of penicillin...
...since March by regular blood transfusions and a variety of drugs. Doctors can now point to youngsters with acute leukemia who are living happily and almost normally three years or more after the disease struck. A diagnosis of acute leukemia is still a sentence of death, but each discovery prolongs the reprieves that medicine can grant. Doctors hope that they may soon find a way to prolong the victims' lives indefinitely...
...Line. To swing the deal, McMahon was aided by some potent allies. El Paso Natural Gas wanted Canadian gas brought in to prolong the life of the San Juan Basin. Californians, whose daily gas consumption (1,400,000,000 cu. ft.) is growing 11% yearly, were worried that 2,800,000 new gas customers in the Northwestern U.S. would exhaust San Juan, thus shut off California's major source. Phillips Petroleum Co., which has big gas reserves in San Juan, also has gas-fields in Peace River that it wants to open...
...play's forbidding tone or gloomy subject matter that makes it, after an impressive first half, so palpably decline. It is, rather, its compulsion to prolong the agony without knowing how to dramatize it. The fine craftsman and melodramatist who wrote Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory, the novelist who much more deftly approached the theme of The Living Room in The Heart of the Matter, has, in his first play, allowed his anxious emotions to overwhelm him. The Living Room too much batters its theme before the suicide, and again for a whole scene after...
...experiment like IC is very likely to enjoy its best years when it is new to students and faculty. Experiment creates excitement, and in such an atmosphere, a course will give every indication of complete success. In an effort to prolong the IC fervor, President Wriston has suggested that professors who wish to continue teaching in the IC program redesign their courses or perhaps change them entirely every few years. In this way he hopes to keep instruction on a high plane of competence and inspiration...