Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Antibody tests have proved that Dr. Grace's cancer-causing agent is not the polyoma virus. The answers to what it is and whether it will lead to protection against human cancer may take years (and millions of mice) to find...
...seminaries, argued Dean Miller, must take some of the blame. Theological education has become "a vulgarized form of a trade school," failing to develop the young clergyman's intellect or make him sensitive to the heights and depths of human experience. Today's minister, warned Miller, "must be sure his mind is sharpened to its utmost, lest he blunder about the world with a rough and stupid carelessness, hoping that he might hit upon the will of God merely because of his good intentions...
...went to work as a secretary for UFA, prewar Germany's movie giant. A few years later, when she switched to the Monopol studios, she was already an unbeatable combination of the seemingly in genuous female and the obviously ingenious financier. In 1934, Use was ready to take over, and for years, she practiced the tough trade of running a movie studio; then the Red army moved on Berlin. Use escaped to Bavaria with only a handful of jewelry to keep her going...
...shortage of dollars. But now, said Anderson, prosperous European nations with big stocks of gold and short-term dollar assets (see chart) no longer "have any balance-of-payments justification for discriminatory restrictions." Unless Europe cooperates by eliminating such restrictions, Anderson hinted, the U.S. may have to take action-perhaps a cut in foreign aid-to correct the balance...
...Soft. Bob Anderson had other complaints. European nations and Japan, said he, are not doing their share to bear the cost of help to the world's underdeveloped nations; they should take over a greater share of the burden from the U.S. To this end Anderson had a pet U.S. project on hand: the establishment of an International Development Association (TIME, Aug. 19) to lend to underdeveloped nations from funds contributed by nations now belonging to the World Bank. The loans would be made on more liberal terms than the World Bank...