Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, the Michigan Daily, the college paper, commented severely on the whole affair. An editorial stated: "Very evidently, some of the large Michigan corporations are working to destroy the service this university has offered...
Chiefly concerned are isotopes of elements which the thyroid, especially in cases of toxic goiter, has the property of absorbing and concentrating at the afflicted portion of the gland. This process enables the radiation emitted by the radioactive isotopes to destroy harmful growths. Other elements which do not become concentrated in the body as iodine does, may be used in research on body chemistry, since by their effect on a Geiger counter, their progress through the body may be traced--thus they are termed "tracer elements...
...Culprits? Putting their book-learning to practical use, said the witnesses, the party faithful were ordered to infiltrate U.S. war plants, e.g., General Electric at Lynn, Mass., manufacturers of jet engines. They were taught that when another "heavy depression" hit the U.S., the time would have arrived to destroy its Government; that if the U.S. adopted an "imperialist" policy, i.e., one opposed to the policy of the Soviet Union, the party must wage "civil...
...ever-narrowing circle, just as men do. Hunting ducks, a coyote once drove the feeding ducks across a lake, and when the ducks ventured close to the farther shore, they were pounced upon by a teammate hidden in the underbrush. Coyotes will hide in a herd of cattle to destroy their scent, or even take refuge in a wagon or a moving flatcar...
There are many reasons way Munch is such a popular leader. First of all he is one of those few conductors doing their best to destroy the image of the "super-man maestro." When he conducts, he is working with an orchestra, he does not stand on a pedestal and dictate to it. He never plays favorites among the players, as many of his colleagues are accused of doing. A tyrant conductor usually develops a clique of musicians who will support him, and help him keep control, but Munch never needs such a clique. One of the violinists...