Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole generation of Americans grew up believing that John D. Rockefeller was walking proof that it is better to be healthy than wealthy-and that all the money in the world won't ward off sickness. But when the BBC revived the old legend that the millionaire's stomach was so weak he had to live on milk and crackers, John D. Rockefeller Jr., no Milquetoast, rose up to deny the story. In a letter to the British publication, the Listener, John D. Jr. wrote: "The story .. . about my father's living simply on milk was entirely...
...starvation produces similar susceptibility in humans. So does diabetes. But most victims of diseases contracted under these malign spells recover their resistance to infection when their diet or metabolism is corrected. It may be that even among well-fed and generally healthy individuals, Dr. Dubos suggests, the ability to ward off attack by infectious agents will vary greatly from day to day. If so, it may explain why a nurse or attendant in a leprosarium may be exposed to infection for years and then, mysteriously, fall victim to the disease. As Dubos puts it: "Contact and receptivity may be rarely...
Worried as to the propriety of the esoteric scripts, a delegation from the Watch and Ward Society arrived to check up on the situation (see cut). The Society was unable to arrive at any conclusions. This was due to the fact that the only person who could translate the various inscriptions spoke only Sanskrit...
...fight for control of Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Florida Financier Louis E. Wolfson and friends have been buying stock in the $1 billion-a-year store chain and mail-order firm at a fast pace (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week Wolfson arrived in Chicago to set up a proxy-soliciting office right under the nose of crotchety old Board Chairman Sewell Avery, and announced that he and his associates now own more than 500,000 shares (8% of the stock outstanding...
Wolfson does not intend to say any more about his holdings until the annual meeting next April. But he plans to sue Ward in the New York County Supreme Court this week for a list of stockholders from Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co., the stock-transfer agent...