Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's gamble was for support in the big cities. He did not have to worry about the Right-wing grumblings in the Solid South. The Solid South would be with him whether it liked...
...things in medicine seemed as new and fashionable as nerve-cutting operations. All over the U.S., surgeons were cutting nerves in various parts of the body in the hope of relieving ulcers, hand sweating, high blood pressure, hiccups, drug addiction, schizophrenia. One hospital last week was booked solid for the next nine months with appointments for lobotomies (cutting nerves in the brain). There were similar waiting lists elsewhere, and many doctors were getting nervous about the whole subject. They asked: Has the nerve-cutting fad already gone too far; will people who are now getting their nerves cut some...
Meeting Europe's coal shortage Professor Mason termed the most pressing difficulty. "England is now out of the coal export market," he explained, and the Ruhr Valley is operating at half the pre-war level. Poland, the third great source of Europe's solid fuel, is now shipping the greater part of its output East...
...made a sudden decision. "Look, Sturdy, I've been back a year now. I could have a solid job in publishing, but I want to be here. Last year I took History 1, Math 2, a couple of Philosophy courses, and got to know a few hundred people all over the College. I'm a settled married guy, but I'm eager as a kid about my reading. Listen, Sturdy, 'a voyage of discovery' isn't just words. I do huge amounts of outside reading, and find it thoroughly exciting. I'm getting to know my own University...
Medicine will be an immediate beneficiary of Woodward's discovery. The synthesis provides a model for the way the body digests and then synthesizes its proteins. Stomach juices act on proteins to reshuffle the natural amino acid chains into the solid parts of the body...