Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While her husband's status was still indefinite, Ruth maintained a dignified silence. Explained one elder tribal statesman who had paid a call: "The queen will not speak to us yet. We are waiting for her command. But word has come to us that she is delighted with her new country...
...Christian World. "A start must be made," said Adenauer when he presided last year over West Germany's constitutional assembly, "so that Germany can earn a place among the free nations of the world." As Chancellor, at 73, he will guide a nation neither whole nor as yet quite free-still distrusted by the outside world, beset with grave economic problems, vestiges of hatred and despair...
...Yet the best of Van Dyck's portraits would live as long as the paint stayed on the canvas. Seen in the cold, impersonal surroundings of the Koninklijk Museum last week, they looked a little ill at ease, for they had been intended to grace warmer, more elegant worlds. But the paintings themselves had warmth and elegance enough to make 17th Century history, and to make the people who strutted through it come alive...
...betatron is not basically a producer of X rays, but of high-speed electrons. Since little is yet known about the effect of electrons on the human body, they are not used directly. Instead, a superbarrage of electrons is fired against a platinum target, which then gives off the X rays...
...sister machine at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon has been used experimentally to treat eight patients since February. Directors of the Canadian project are not yet ready to report results. * Patients with cancer so widespread as to be considered hopeless will not be treated with the betatron. Also, many common types of cancer cells do not yield to X-ray treatment...