Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moscow statement, wrapped up in a brief dispatch by the Tass news agency, noted coldly that various reports about a possible lifting of the Berlin blockade had been spread in the "foreign press." To refute incorrect rumors, Tass deemed it necessary to set down "the facts as they are." Russia's U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik and U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had been conducting talks on the subject of Berlin. According to Tass, the first of these conversations had taken place last February, the last almost two weeks...
...mass of styles, like monstrous stalagmites . . ." Furthermore, Manhattan's topless towers are dangerous and uncomfortable. On windy days, "lamps swing and water splashes . . . The inhabitants of the Empire State Building can hardly experience great pleasure when the tremendous building swings with the wind and one can clearly hear various noises, squeaking and cracking...
...many ways. Only three years old, it shows the strain of maturation in many of its limbs, but as it is growing, so it is strengthening and pushing out in new directions. First, many of its courses are taught by two, three and often a myriad of experts covering various topics. Being a nebulous discipline which contains more theory than fact, the opinions of more than one instructor are often necessary...
Waldron Sr. was a small, grey, wiry man who kept his own counsel, spent most of his time at home hidden behind his newspaper. He was a rebel against steady work, a smalltime promoter of various large-sounding enterprises which never quite seemed to pan out. Father was a rebel in other respects. He disliked such contraptions as the automobile. He suspected such institutions as the telephone company; when he decided the company was cheating him on toll calls he had the telephone taken out, never would have it put back...
...have tested the blood of 300 people, both sick and apparently well. They heated samples of the blood after adding a chemical called iodoacetate. In the blood of healthy people the protein (serum albumin) clotted much more readily than protein in the blood of people who had cancer, tuberculosis, various severe infections, such as kidney diseases. Where tests were positive, other diseases could be readily ruled out, and a search for the location of cancer could continue by more complicated methods. Study of the reasons why the blood protein of cancer victims is abnormal may eventually throw light...