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Word: somes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is need for such a combination because streptomycin, more than any other of the antibiotics, tends to develop resistant strains of germs. Some strains learn to live with it, even becoming dependent on it-as if a rat began to fatten on rat poison. The resistant strains can be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

While Waksman waits to set up his institute with streptomycin money, the search for better antibiotics goes on. The requirements for a new antibiotic seeking membership in the select club are getting stiffer all the time. Explains Waksman: to qualify, a new drug must kill some kinds of germs more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

The biggest class of germs against which no drug (antibiotic or otherwise) has been found effective: the viruses. Rutgers has just added a virologist, Dr. Vincent Groupe, to Waksman's staff. Thus far, Groupe can report no progress, but neither can other virologists; the job may take years. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Soil | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

The production has many merits: Rouben Mamoulian's swift, pictorial staging, some of Kurt Weill's music, Todd Duncan as the father, Julian Mayfield as the son, ten-year-old Herbert Coleman bringing down the house with Big Mole. But with half as much, Lost in the Stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Play in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

But the market's rise was not as gravity-defying as it looked. It was solidly shored up by 1) the whopping third-quarter profits of many a corporation, and 2) an increasing tendency to pass some of these profits along to stockholders in the form of bigger dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Full of Steam | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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