Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treaty in Washington. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman was about to leave on the same mission. They would be here to endorse an affirmative act on which the U.S. people, except for a noisy minority, were no longer divided -an act of determination which was the best answer to the fulminations of the "Conference for World Peace...
...matches around in his hands. He looked out the door. Finally he said: "The Brazilian people are suffering, particularly the workers. The crisis, in time, may pass." And then, as an afterthought: "Perhaps they need a younger man than I." In short, Getulio Vargas did not answer the question as bluntly as the posters...
People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which makes it sound pretty simple. He merely examined about 10,000 cultures, he explains. Only 1,000 would kill bacteria in preliminary tests; only 100 looked promising in later tests; only ten were isolated and described; one of the ten proved to be streptomycin. It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis...
...followed this statement with his own answer to "this strange conundrum. . . . It is because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast area they control and the civilization of the West. The Russian people must not see what goes on outside, and the world must not see what goes on inside the Soviet domain...
...Harvard the Liberal Union said last night it has not yet received any answer to its Sunday telegram to Shostakovich inviting him to speak here in April...