Word: checks
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...general health conditions are at their worst, the International Tuberculosis Campaign, jointly sponsored by several U.N. and Red Cross organizations, has injected some 14 million people with the TB vaccine. Their fond hope is that the vaccinations have cut tuberculosis morbidity* by four-fifths. Only time and a careful check on the health of a whole new generation will prove...
...John McClain's not bothering "to check his sources" [TIME, Nov. 20]: TIME might catch up on its own sources-McClain is a New York Journal-American columnist, not a "New York World-Telegram and Sun columnist...
...have exposed a host of literary forgeries, revealed that Poet William Wordsworth fathered an illegitimate daughter during a stay in France in 1792,* established that Poet Christopher Marlowe was not killed in a row over a bawd (as Puritans told the story), but over who should pay a tavern check†. One of the most impressively persistent investigations of all was the case of old Sir Thomas Malory, a job that challenged two generations of tracers of lost literary persons...
...housing starts in 1951 might well be higher than FRB intended. Furthermore, the auto dealers were using old figures when they talked of slumping sales. With a threatened cut in auto output, car sales have recently spurted upward again. Nevertheless, FRB thought that tougher credit controls might check inflation-if given a chance to work...
...Bureau Chief, Miss Labenow, had learned of a projected Great Issues course from Student Council members. She tried to check it with President Jordan; Jordan was ill and replied that he thought it was too early to write anything." Sometime after the story appeared demanded that Miss Labenow drop all her CRIMSON activities. Radcliffe gave several reasons. President Jordan said that the story contained inaccuracies--and this is probably true. But Miss Projansky told John Fenton of the New York Times: "Miss Labenow has gone ahead and had stories printed in the CRIMSON which were contrary to the best interests...