Word: weak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cancer cells of the type called Ehrlich sarcoma are ground up, made into an emulsion and injected beneath the skins of mice, the animals invariably die. Drs. Alexandre Besredka and Ludwik Gross of the Pasteur Institute in Paris made small, weak doses of finely minced sarcoma tissue, injected them not beneath but in the skins of mice. In most of the animals metastases (cancer colonizations elsewhere in the body) took place and death followed. But in 10% the skin tumor caused by the injection dried up and disappeared and thereafter the mice were immune to that type of sarcoma...
Distance Men Weak...
Scoring at will, the Freshman sextet overwhelmed a weak Cambridge Latin team 9 to 1 yesterday afternoon...
Grey Owl wanted to ask the children of Britain: "Will you promise never to take advantage of the weakness of another human being or animal? Never take the life of a weak and defenseless animal for your own amusement? Never join in a chase where foxes, stags, otters or hares are driven for miles & miles by crowds of dogs and men-and sometimes, I am afraid, by women and children? Is this fair play? Is this sport...
...Congress. They were a message from her father, Thomas Mann: "One frequently hears it said that the artist should stick to his own craft, and that he merely cheapens himself when he descends into the political arena to participate in the struggles of the day. I consider this a weak objection, because of my conviction, or rather my clear realization, of the fact that the different spheres of humanity-whether artistic, cultural or political-are really inseparable. And that is why it makes me very happy to see that the art world of a country as large and as important...