Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunburn. Easily the most burning question concerns suntan pills derived from an ancient Egyptian herb remedy. A few years ago, U.S. researchers extracted the weed's potent chemical, 8-methoxy-psoralen, or 8-MOP for short, thought it might help thin-skinned sun seekers tan without burning (TIME, Oct. 17, 1955). Then the team split. One member, the University of Oregon's Dr. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, concluded that 8-MOP actually makes burns more likely. A small drug firm, Paul B. Elder Co. of Bryan, Ohio, put up 8-MOP in capsules as Oxsor-alen, got it passed...
...long, exhausting day, something called the interior monologue has rattled around inside many an emptier head. The latest victim of the idea that anything and everything goes, especially on paper, is an American named James Patrick Donleavy, whose cross-pollination with Bloom has produced a rank Jimson weed. Its name: Sebastian Dangerfield, chief character of a mad, and-by British critics-madly praised novel called The Ginger...
...most U.S. metal producers the plan is merely a rear-guard action against the tariff increases that they feel are necessary. Anaconda's Chairman Clyde Weed called the subsidies "unfair and absurd." Said a Kennecott official: "I can't imagine the American taxpayer making contributions to Kennecott and Anaconda...
Four-game winner Dave Brigham will go to the mound for the home team, seeking to maintain his outstanding 1.73 league earned run average. Penn will probably start Junior Leonard Weed, whose knuckleball may spell trouble for the Crimson. The varsity batters have not made very inspiring showings against the "junk" pitchers that they have faced so far this year...
Died. Helena Hill Weed, 83, Vassar '96, kinetic suffragette who crisscrossed the nation crusading for her right to vote (and was thrown into jail four times in Washington), member of the National Woman's Party and a founder of the Women's National Press Club; in San Jacinto, Calif...