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Word: shortly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point of coming to maturity (and criticisms like that of Father Weigel are signs of this maturation), our remaining problems are largely financial. If someone were to give me one-fourth of the funds of Harvard, we would, in this graduate school, make fairly short work of the deficiencies of American Catholic scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 19, 1957 | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Ever since the publication of his first novel in 1929, Graham Greene has been a master of the psychological thriller. He has turned out a long series of serious novels, mystery tales and short stories. A few years ago he took his first crack at drama by writting The Living Room; and he followed that up last year with The Potting Shed...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: The Potting Shed | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

Even so, only 20 million Americans have so far received the recommended three doses of Salk vaccine, Surgeon General Leroy Burney reported; 48 million others have had one or two shots. Though vaccine is again in brisk demand and short supply, Dr. Burney urged community health officials to plan now for mass inoculation, as soon as vaccine becomes available, of 41 million citizens under 40 who have had no shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Decline | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...plus doctor's fees. One shot should trigger the production of protective antibodies in ten to 14 days. Because single shots of flu vaccines are usually effective in only 70% of cases, the armed forces like to give a second shot. In this case, because of short supply, their second shots will probably have to wait. The six manufacturers aim to produce 60 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Asian Flu: the Outlook | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

...bales v. 2,200,000 bales in 1956; wheat shipments rose to 535 million bu. from 340 million bu. Agriculture Department expects foreign sales boom to level off in current fiscal year because of bumper cotton, wheat crops abroad, new import controls in some dollar-short countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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