Word: uses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimate of the game. The best tennis player in the world, a 26-year-old named John Albert Kramer, should certainly not take exception to it-though he might want to add a few things. For instance, the kind of tennis he plays is about to be of some use to his country. And shortly thereafter, it might be turned to more immediate profit to himself...
...agreement, the two have never so much as suggested playing singles against each other since 1941-even for fun. When & if they do, it will be in Madison Square Garden, before a packed house, for important money. For Jake Kramer knows that, although "tennis is a game of no use in itself," it is useful to a man-especially a champion-with a desire to improve his position in the world...
...pain-killer called metopon hydrochloride is now available to doctors for relieving cancer patients (its use for any other purpose is forbidden). The National Research Council has found the drug a considerable improvement over morphine: it is twice as effective as a painkiller, is less likely to produce addiction, does not stupefy...
...ingenious new use of an old drug for an old disease was announced by Dr. I. Forest Huddleson of Michigan State College. Dr. Huddleson, one of the world's leading authorities on undulant fever (TIME, Nov. 18), had tried sulfadiazine against the disease. The drug killed undulant fever bacteria in a test-tube but did not work in most patients. The doctor decided that inactive antibodies in the patients' blood somehow neutralized the drug. To make the drug work, perhaps the patient needed a supply of active antibodies. Dr. Huddleson gave his patients transfusions of whole blood containing...
...society from destruction, or that the validity of the Christian faith is in the slightest imperiled even if the whole world be destroyed. . . . God did not allow man to discover [atomic energy] until He was ready that man should discover it. Whether it is God's intention to use this means to bring this world to an end, or to lead it into a new era of creativity, it is impossible for us to say. ... But we can say that whatever God intends He will accomplish, and that His purposes are good and righteous altogether...