Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the last echoes of penicillin's wonder-working died away, a fresh piece of news set the echoes going again. Last week, through hospital corridors all over the U.S., the news was: penicillin may be effective against late syphilis. Doctors already knew that penicillin was effective against early syphilis (TIME, Oct. 25). But late syphilis is much more difficult to cope with...
...fine orientation lesson for many of the kids who still wonder why they were yanked out of the pleasant life of youth and what the hell they're fighting...
Medical news last week vied with news of the days before invasion. Under the aspect of eternity, the medical news might even be more important than the military. WPB announced that the wonder drug penicillin, for three years practically a monopoly of the Army & Navy, was now being manufactured in such quantity that it can be issued to civilians. Some 1,000 hospitals will be allowed to buy generous monthly quotas for distribution to patients and other hospitals as they...
...left for his southern vacation (He had been rushed to the Mayo Clinic. He is suffering from anemia. Three psychiatrists went south with him). Similar whispers arose in '36 and '40, but this time the White House coterie is more worried. Reason: Democratic politicians are beginning to wonder if the President may refuse to run for a Fourth Term because of his health...
Last week the Finnish Government rejected Moscow's peace terms, enraged the Russians, and made all the world wonder. Just out of Helsinki, TIME Correspondent John Scott cabled from Stockholm...