Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment is still experimental. The Rh-hapten, which must be made from human blood, is expensive, and its action is not yet clearly understood. But already it has saved some babies who would almost certainly have died before birth, and others who would have had little chance of living more than a few days...
...sharp eye for picking and financing winners.* Whitney got into the frozen juice business through National Research Corp., a war-boomed company that licenses the process by which Vacuum Foods concentrates and freezes the juice. When mixed with three parts of water, the frozen juice is the closest thing yet to fresh-squeezed juice...
...behind the cold marble mask of the historical figure, it was Douglas Freeman. Next week, with the first two volumes off the press (there are four more to come, the last in 1952), readers can get started on what is certain to be the best researched life of Washington yet written...
...short acquaintance and after two calls, he had proposed to Widow Martha Custis, yet, engaged to her, he could still write to his best friend's wife: "You have drawn me, dear Madam, or rather I have drawn myself, into an honest confession of a simple fact. Misconstrue not my meaning; doubt it not, nor expose it. The world has no business to know the object of my Love, declared in this manner to you, when I want to conceal it . . " Sally Fairfax answered his letter at once, but tactfully avoided any mention of his romantic confession...
...Yet in the end, Freeman, and consequently the reader too, is impressed by a strength of character, an almost fierce sense of justice and principles of conduct rare in Washington's time or any other: "The foundations of that code were not love and mercy, faith and sacrifice, but honesty and duty, truth and justice, justice exact and inclusive, justice that never for an instant overlooked his own interests...