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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patients, none had a major lung-artery blockage while receiving phenindione. though three had embolisms (two of them fatal) after the drug was stopped. Among the untreated 150, no fewer than 15 deaths appeared to be solely or substantially attributable to traveling clots. Like all anticoagulants, phenindione must be given under the strictest medical supervision, usually in a hospital, with frequent laboratory tests to guard against the danger of uncontrollable bleeding, and some accidents or illnesses would preclude treatment. But with these precautions, the British method looks promising...
...even 1954's tourist - would hardly recognize the place. Throughout West Germany, old military installations have become light industrial plants; along the middle Rhine, from Karlsruhe to the outskirts of the Ruhr district, new oil refineries and petrochemical plants are popping up like mushrooms. France's war-ravaged port city of Rouen has new docks, new bridges, new housing developments for 60,000 workers, who labor in refineries, operating with three times their prewar capacity, and in new plastics and textile plants. To the south, the land opposite Venice's drowsy lagoon has emerged...
...period 1706-34, Volume I only takes Franklin to the age of 28, but these were the spawning years of his genius. He served his apprenticeship as a printer, journeyed to England and back, published the New England Courant, married, formed the "Junto," an intellectual self-improvement club of like-minded Philadelphians, and brought out the first three of the famed Poor Richard's Almanacks. Franklin also set down his basic religious outlook, a kind of deism that made him a logical child of the rationalist Enlightenment. Instinctively a yea-sayer to life, Franklin came very close to believing...
...grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy." "Men and Melons are hard to know," "There is no little enemy." Poor Richard, of course, is also chockablock with moralistic homilies. D. H. Lawrence once carped that Franklin "made himself a list of virtues, which he trotted inside like a gray nag in a paddock." Lawrence was not the first or the last to be infuriated by Franklin's middle-class prudence; yet Franklin's maxims-many taken from even earlier sages-are no less true for having become truisms. Who can deny that "He that lies...
...Like the Cover of an old Book...