Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Professor C. J. Van der Horst: "The baboon is functionally so closely related to man that scientists in other parts of the world would regard it as a great forward step . . . if they could experiment on baboons instead of . . . cats, dogs, mice, guinea pigs and rabbits." Science has already given the monkeys stomach ulcers, will soon use them for work on diseases of women and malnutrition...
These charges made most life-insurance men, who regard their companies as models of business propriety, hopping mad. But they were determined not to get into an uncontrollable brawl. They left all the talking to the president of the Canadian Life Insurance Officers' Association, staid Henry William Manning. Snorted Mr. Manning: "The investigation is farcical as well as political and needlessly disturbing to 4,000,000 policyholders...
...discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders-a proposition which the Russians would probably regard as laughable...
...politically possible to keep taxes sky-high in fat years, as they must be kept to lay away a cushion for the lean? Mr. Chase is not sure. Practically any politician could set his mind at rest instantly with the obvious answer: No. "Americans," he writes, "traditionally regard taxes as a burden and a waste, if not an outrage. . . . They will have to change their ideas and begin to think about taxes the way they have been taught to think about insurance. You pay now in order to avoid calamity later...
...rooked, say the Treasury, precisely because his foreign loans were made without any overall supervision, were improperly sold-and oversold-to him and to the borrower, at too-high interest rates and with too little regard for whether the money was actually used productively...