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...time guest soloists who visit Oklahoma rapidly succumb to Maestro Alessandro's easy, breezy charm. Jascha Heifetz, a normally cool and noncommittal artist, thawed to the point of telling Oklahomans: "I am going to do all 1 can to make the Oklahoma Symphony known-but it will be known without...
...Never again," says Schwarzschild, "must we succumb to the myth that power and armaments and compulsion are of themselves sinful. . . . All order, all civilization, all law and dignity, rest on the existence of weapons and power." The Illusion. Author Schwarzschild's No. 2 thesis is that Germans have more than their share of the Old Adam in them. Woodrow Wilson, believing that the postwar Germans of the new republic would be good and deserving democrats; the British, playing balance-of-power politics and encouraging a strong, pre-Hitler Germany; the assorted liberals, radicals, plain men of good will...
...fact: the Grand Old Party had had its face lifted. It may turn out to be conservative; it may again succumb to the Old Guardsmen. But as the campaign began, the younger men were in the front...
Chemotherapy. Doctors used to think that the tough-skinned tubercle bacillus would never succumb to a drug. But promin, diasone, promizole and the brand-new diaminodiphenylsulfone (all sulfa drugs) have showed good results against tuberculosis in guinea pigs, fair promise to human patients (TIME, Dec. 6). Drs. Horton Corwin Hinshaw and William H. Feldman, of the Mayo Clinic, told the Society that tuberculosis will probably succumb to a drug some day but that it is too early to evaluate any drug tried so far. For the sake of Europe, which is suffering a wartime tuberculosis increase, they urged that search...
...pulse, coma, high blood acidity), then he injects a solution of glucose by vein to neutralize the insulin and bring the patient to. Mixed with the glucose is the drug ordinarily used to fight whatever disease he is treating. Dr. Perez Garcia believes that the insulin makes the bacteria succumb more easily to the drug...