Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price of five shillings has been put on meals--that's one dollar, and it stands even in the best restaurants. In some of the swank places (based on pre-war prices) a "house charge" of a few shillings is allowed also, but in general one can get a solid three-course meal (although usually chicken or fish) for a dollar. In addition, the government has established special low-price restaurants in poor areas. Housing, on the other hand, is retarded even worse than in the United States, but by very actual shortage of materials, and so far only temporary...
...tear sheets of a new monthly technical magazine called Audio Engineering. Carefully checked with its author, Inventor S. (for Sidney) Young White, the story described the gadget, told what it could do, and suggested some aspects of its possible ultrasonic future-such as killing bacteria, breaking up suspensions of solid particles, precipitating smoke and dust...
...Meeting of Two Worlds. And even if the U.S. and Russia were to settle their differences, U.N.'s really rock-bottom problem remained. Chicago's Robert Maynard Hutchins had stated it well two years ago. He said: "A world state can arise and endure only on the solid foundations of a world community. No such community exists. . . . The only hope is to increase the rate of moral progress tremendously, to increase it beyond anything we have ever dreamed...
Among the sure-fire ingredients were Hollywood names, hints of big-time crime, and some intriguing reports about Bugsy's women friends, one a countess. The papers knew just enough about Bugsy's love affairs to write headlines about "mystery women." There were few solid facts to get in the way of newspaper crime writers. And almost anything could be written about most of those involved. They were not the suing kind; courtroom discussion of their shady reputations was the last thing they wanted...
...vaccine (into the muscles), monkeys proved immune to thousands of times the lethal dose of polio. Their immunity even stood up when the polio virus was injected directly into their brains. The vaccine is the first thus far, the Johns Hopkins researchers hopefully observed, that has produced "solid immunity...