Word: tars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paludrine, newly synthesized from coal tar, is claimed by its British discoverers to be a better malaria attack preventive than atabrine. Quinine and atabrine merely prevent parasites already in the blood from making the victim sick. Paludrine may occasionally even prevent malaria from getting into the blood at all, by killing the germ at the moment the mosquito pushes it through the skin...
...went into every one of North Carolina's 100 counties, returned with $5,500,000 to present to his boss, President Harry Chase (now chancellor of N.Y.U.). The opinions he formed on that trip, on what his state needed, have made him a hair shirt to reactionary Tar Heel industrialists ever since. Many of the state's progressive labor laws were incubated...
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives, 36, a jolly, round (270 Ibs.) "git-tar"-strumming balladeer, sang it on the radio, in nightclubs, on records and on Broadway (Sing Out, Sweet Land!). He made it a hit, and it helped make him one. He called it an "insect song," just one of 350 ballads he had picked up while bumming around the U.S. singing (TIME, July 27, 1942). This month The Blue-Tail Fly turned up in a Burl Ives collection of rediscovered ballads (The Wayfarin' Stranger; Leeds Music Corp., $1). And last week Burl sang it for the movies. Only...
...H.M.S. Pinafore, conies Hollywood Pinafore, which runs a saw through the libretto. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., is now a timid tyrant of a producer (Victor Moore); Dick Deadeye is Dick Live-Eye (William Gaxton), a rapacious agent. Ralph Rackstraw (Gilbert Russell) is a lowlier writer than he was a tar; and Little Buttercup is Little ButterUp, a gurgling columnist named Louhedda Hopsons (Shirley Booth...
...French fared even worse. Some of their importations survived (portage, grand rapids, mile, prairie), but by the time a few generations of American settlers had gone to work on them, L'eau Froide (cold water) was Low Freight, Pomme de Terre was Pumly Tar, and the dignified river L'Ours (bear) was simply Louse Creek. Strangest of all, perhaps, was the fate of a settlement named after the Dutchman De Geoijen. In short order it became De Queen, and the local news paper De Queen...