Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squat, articulate Dr. Fishbein was still full of energy and plans. Said he: "I don't feel like relaxing. There is no fixed retirement age for human beings. I have been associated recently with five men over 80 in the medical profession, and they are still doing great work...
Some of the patients on whom Dr. Bargen tried methylcellulose had taken, as they said, "barrels of laxatives," and were still constipated. One 6g-year-old woman had been taking daily doses as long as she could remember. A girl of 19, her mother testified, had taken a laxative nearly every day since early childhood. Methylcellulose straightened them...
Kala-azar is found in the Mediterranean basin, in India (where it got its name, meaning black disease), China and Brazil. Prewar cases in the U.S. were mostly Lascar seamen or visitors from the Orient. Then scores of U.S. servicemen caught the disease. Many cases may still be lurking in veterans' bloodstreams as "undiagnosed fever." U.S. doctors have been alerted against...
...entertainment, the United Nations was shaping up as better than anything else on daytime television. Dramatically, the chief flaw was still the tendency of the opposing orators to repeat their arguments over & over again. As one of the Brooklyn teen-agers complained: "They just say what they think or what their country thinks, but they don't listen to anyone else. Once a person finishes talking, he goes to sleep already. He just listens to his own side and thinks he's right all the time...
...could be leased to the local education authority "at a rent which would allow for mortgage interest or redemption." The government would then support Catholic schools out of taxes, in return would have sole power to regulate school curricula and appoint teachers. Beyond the fact that the proposal would still leave the ownership of the schools in church hands, there was another big string tied to it: the teachers would be subject to Catholic approval "as regards religious belief, character and fitness, and the religious education provided in the school would continue unchanged...