Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promising new weapon against tuberculosis-an antibiotic called chloromycetin-is reported in Science this week. Discovered in a sample of Venezuelan soil by Yale's Botanist Paul R. Burkholder, and isolated by Parke, Davis & Co. chemists, the drug has performed brilliantly (in the test tube) against the bacteria of tuberculosis, undulant fever and a variety of other tough germs...
House In the Desert (Palestine Films; United Palestine Appeal) is a 27-minute documentary story of a hard, admirable piece of pioneering: the washing of salt from a few hundred acres of the Dead Sea desert, and the reclamation of the soil. It is crudely made, but at its best moments its crudity and deep emotion seem more proper to each other than polish could...
Veterans of the China Theater will certainly get a good laugh out of the statement . . . "The essence of the problem is the ejection of every armed Communist from the soil of China"-as probable as Stalin becoming President...
...pilgrimage climbs over Hitler's favorite mountain. You meet them even on the slopes-marked Verboten to Germans-around his chalet and eagle's nest eyrie. They turn stony faces to foreigners on the mountain as though the latter's mere presence on the sacred soil were sacrilege...
...Communism is a universal idea. Its roots lie in too great concern for the things of this world. Bourgeois Americanism is rooted in the same soil, and unless it is transplanted, the fruit it bears will be the same. The representative of the FBI, fingerprinting Communist Party members, may wake up to discover that he himself subscribes to the same errors. In our anxiety and vigilance to barricade the door against Communist infiltration, we may have left open the windows of our hearts and minds to the same enemy...