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Word: useful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good recovery from major surgery, who was sinking fast until a chaplain-intern persuaded him that he still had much to live for. "Every person's life is vitally affected by his faith and religion," says Dr. Bryan. "The institute trains the health team to understand and use these spiritual resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Healing Team | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...feel about television commercials-do you think they use untruthful arguments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Unbeguiled Public | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...also prohibits any other form of plug. NBC continued the practice of getting prizes in exchange for plugs, but announced that the schlock operation would henceforth be supervised by the network, rather than by independent producers, and that no bribes would be accepted from suppliers for the use of their merchandise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Climbing the Pedestal | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive may use a para-aminobenzoic acid preparation, which will pass rays to provide a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...time, concluded Dr. Knox, for the medical profession to begin an educational campaign on the harmful effects of excess exposure to sun, and advocate use of preparations to ward off both premature aging of the skin and cancer. Blondes, he suggested, can keep that schoolgirl complexion longer if they use powder and makeup bases with built-in chemical sun screens. It was with no hint of boasting that Dallas' Dr. James B. Howell noted: "Texans have the highest incidence of skin cancer in the population of any state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Sky, Big Burn | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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