Word: versa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mystery. The Columbia River's wild ducks were suspected because they mooch free meals in the turkey runs. But Dr. Donald Mason (on loan to Oregon from the U.S. Public Health Service) admitted: "We may never know whether the ducks gave the disease to the turkeys, or vice versa...
...Church of Rome, reasoned A.I.M., doubtless could teach businessmen a thing or two-and vice versa. "Standard Oil of N.J. and the Catholic Church are both producers," says retired Banker Martindell. "Standard Oil produces oil and the church produces a way of life and a way of thought, but they both have production problems. Take a missionary-it's my belief that a man who practices good management will probably save more souls than a man who doesn't.'' So, in December 1948, with the astonished acquiescence of the Vatican, Episcopalian Martindell had an audience with...
...great difficulty of my whole career as a painter is that what I love most . . . holds little of interest for most people ... I love the approach of winter, the retreat of winter, the change from snow to rain and vice versa, the decay of vegetation and the resurgence of plant life in the spring. These to me are exciting and beautiful, an endless panorama of beauty and drama, but . . . the mass of humanity remains either bored and indifferent or actually hostile...
...whether hypertension causes arteriosclerosis, or vice versa, no one knows. A similar change in major arteries is often seen in the aged: the muscular wall hardens so much that the vessels are called "pipestem arteries." In an otherwise healthy individual this condition may go undetected and do no apparent harm...
...network way of doing things is often frustrating to viewers who would like to watch both Ed Sullivan's show and Martin & Lewis. But that is the way competitive TV works. If NBC has a top-rated show, CBS will put an equal attraction opposite it and vice versa. Since the networks believe that once a viewer tunes to another channel he may never tune back, the moral is: don't let him get away...