Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established a radio station and a school (said the China Year Book: "The curriculum of the school consists principally of Chinese and commonsense"). The British put in another radio station (which worked better than the Chinese) and established a diplomatic mission, headed at present by a capable civil servant, Basil john Gould...
...flash in the pan, the discussion was elaborately organized to enlist the opinions of such illustrious Britons as the Archbishop of York (Canterbury declined), George Bernard Shaw, Laborites Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison, Harold Nicolson, J. B. S. Haldane, Novelist Rose Macaulay, Editor Basil Kingsley Martin of the New Statesman and Nation, and the Moderator of the Church of Scotland, Archibald Main. Points on which these worthies and the debaters agree will then go to a drafting committee of nine headed by Socialist Viscount John Sankey. (Pundit Wells resigned that post last week after a Herald blast at Chamberlain...
...delegates to the Congress are: Edward Ames '42, David P. Bennett '42, Fleischman, Maurice S. Friedman '43, Edward B. Ginsberg, Jr. '43, Alan R. Gottlieb '41, Lawrence B. Grose '41, Samuel S. Hermann '40, Jonas N. Muller '40, Basil R. Pollitt '41, Walter K. Rosen '42, and Irwin Ross...
...Although the dentists at the meeting agreed that the time was near when they would use "controlled local application of fluorine to prevent dental caries," Dr. Basil Glover Bibby of the University of Rochester sounded a warning. Said he: "The use of fluorine in tooth powder or paste should not be considered, because it is unsafe. Fluorine is poisonous and dangerous if administered by untrained persons." He assured his colleagues that they need not sacrifice beauty for utility. Fluorine, he said, mottles only newly erupted second teeth. In proper doses, it will not pit permanent teeth if given after...
Tower of London (Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone; TIME...