Word: soaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn to undergo the rigors of adaptation, and the experience is often too much for him. Partly for this reason, Lima and Callao have one of the world's highest T.B. rates. Dr. Monge thinks Andean man's future is in the mountains. There, with food, soap and some books, says Monge, he might one day recapture the creative vigor of the Incas...
...Doctor and the Girl (MGM) is a painless medical movie glorifying the general practitioner. Young Dr. Glenn Ford, a ruthlessly ambitious intern, is put through a soap-opera wringer until he reforms and becomes a bighearted country doctor with an office under Manhattan's Third Avenue...
...opening process began when his board started interviewing candidates for the superintendency. Most of the candidates, he found, were "more interested in soap, towels, bathrooms, ventilation, and machines for waxing floors than they were in basic subjects." When they did speak about education, "they were all stamped out of the same die, following the doctrines and dogmas of the educators" in blind obedience. What sort of education were those dogmas leading to? Smith decided that it was high time parents found out. This week, in his "primer for parents," And Madly Teach (Henry Regnery; $2), Mortimer Smith reported what...
...Budapest thrusting circulars into the hands of startled pedestrians. "Young men and women! You are in mortal danger!" they read. "The peril of childbed fever menaces your life! Beware of doctors, for they will kill you! Remember! When you enter labor unless everything that touches you is washed with soap and water and then chlorine solution, you will die and your child with you! . . . Your friend, Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis...
...build here but can't for lack of space; Plan E's low tax rate has proved quite an attraction in this respect. Finally, Cambridge-unlike such one industry cities as Fall River, Lynn, and Gloucester-is somewhat depression-resistant in that it boasts diversification of trades. Candy, soap, chemicals, metals, and printing companies-as well as colleges-continue to flourish here...