Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright Idea for Polio. Next to a cure, what polio fighters need most is a cheap, quick test. In its early stages, infantile paralysis is hard to diagnose, because the symptoms (fever, headache, upset stomach) may be those of half a dozen childhood ailments. A new drug may seem to work wonders when all the time the patient only had grippe. A new diagnostic test on mice was reported last week in Science by Dr. Pierre R. Lepine, of the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He injects fecal material from suspected polio patients into the brains of five mice. Two days...
...many of our editorial pages," wrote tweedy, 49-year-old Editor Herbert Brucker, "are journalistic quick lunches, manned by short-order essayists . . . What ought to be incisive opinion all too often turns out to be a collection of cliches . . . Is it any wonder that editorials are read by only 49% of the men and 29% of the women...
...they had predicted and promised, Republicans gave Harry Truman's massive special session program a quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval...
Grain Prices. Despite the prospect of improved crops abroad, the U. S. Government raised its 1948-49 grain export goal to a near-record 450 million bushels, 20% more than six weeks ago. Skidding grain prices did a quick turnabout, with wheat at one time rising as much as 3? a bushel, corn rising...
Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the hottest on record at Kew Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...