Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny is commander in chief -theoretically-of West Europe's land forces, and the man to whom the most crucial task would fall if the Russians attacked tomorrow. He is also the most striking member of a strange military organism known as Uniforce, which for nine months has quietly tried to plan the defense of Western Europe. The progress & problems of Uniforce throw a light on the issue before the U.S. Congress...
After three years at St. Cyr, France's West Point, young De Lattre became a lieutenant in the dragoons. He saw action in World War I; in 1921, a captain, he began service under France's late great Marshal Hubert Lyautey in Morocco; in 1929 De Lflttre was called to the general staff. By 1939, at 50, he was the youngest general in the French army...
...adding solutions of the enzymes to homogenized milk, West fixed the normal curdling time. Then he repeated the process with blood specimens containing the inhibitors, and noted the longer curdling times. His figures gave an index to the normal strength of the inhibitors...
...presence of cancers, West found, the chymotrypsin inhibitor is greatly multiplied. As soon as a cancer patient responds favorably to treatment, the normal proportion (with the rennin inhibitor more abundant) is restored. Sometimes, West reported this week in the Annals of Western Medicine and Surgery, his test will give the first indication that a patient needs fresh treatment (for example, X rays) if recovery is to continue...
U.C.L.A. rashly called the West test "the first rapid and accurate method" of determining whether cancer treatment is having any effect...