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Word: system (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tricky Enemy | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...over and that Southern prejudice has Northern parallels, we are disposed to agree . . . [But Carter] is really suggesting that we avert our eyes from the Southland because evil things also occur up North, just as the apologists for Soviet tyranny tell us we dare not attack their slave-system until we have ended oppression in Dixie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: With a Capital L | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...unconsciously believe in Him, because the god whose existence they deny is not God but something else. Finally, there are absolute atheists, who actually deny the existence of the very God in whom the believers believe-God the Creator, Savior and Father . . . who stand committed to change their entire system of values and to destroy in themselves everything that suggests God's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The God-Haters | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...Schnering is also one of the nation's top farmers. Last week, on his 7,soo-acre Illinois domain, the Candy Bar King reached for a new crown. After seven years' research, grey-haired, blue-eyed Otto Schnering was ready to launch the first big-scale nationwide system of breeding cattle by artificial insemination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Candy King Reaches Out | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Profits & Pensions. Because stale stock ruined many a candymaker, Schnering sidestepped jobbers outside metropolitan centers, and developed a system whereby hundreds of truck-driving salesmen supplied Curtiss dealers. He spurred sales with profit & pension plans, and his 7,000 employees have never shown much interest in unionism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Candy King Reaches Out | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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