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...eulogy. This one is neither. Gunther is interested in neither tears nor personal royalties (both his proceeds and the publisher's profits go to cancer research for children). Without fuss, in simple, almost conversational style, he expresses the love and comradeship he felt for his son, gives a step-by-step account of cancer's inexorable victory. In so doing, Gunther arouses in the reader an almost deliberate passion to help find the dark enemy and destroy...
Lancashire v. Lyon. What had happened to Western Union? Last year, Winston Churchill had grandly advocated the "grand design." All that Europe heard from Britain on the subject now was what one U.S. newsman called "the dull plop-plop" of Ernie Bevin's speeches, urging step-by-step progress. A British M.P. last week explained: "The French plan is an effort to pass on to some kind of European government the problems which the French government has so much trouble solving. Some call it 'escapism.' I prefer to call it the search for a short...
Sources close to the plotters at MIT gave the CRIMSON a step-by-step account of the plot that might have interrupted the Harvard-Yale game with a surprise blast directly after the opening kick...
...chief risk was that no military half-measures by the U.S. could now check the momentum of the Soviet Union's advance. But to a man like Lovett there could be no alternative. The Administration's drift, indecision and timidity had encouraged Russia's step-by-step advance ever since the wartime days when U.S. policy was determined by a mixture of military strategy and "liberal" illusions about Communism. At last the U.S. Government was through with its paralyzing illusions and the time had come for decisive action...
University since 1931, they have patiently traced the body's step-by-step transformation of carbohydrates and sugars into substances in blood and tissue. Their Nobel Prize was for discovering and synthesizing a complicated enzyme (an enzyme is a biological catalyst) that begins the process of converting glycogen (animal starch) into sugar in the body...