Word: doubledealing
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At free-thinking Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia, undergraduate church attendance has nearly doubled in five years. Most significant religious development at Virginia is a series of Sunday-night lectures on theology which this autumn began its seventh successful year.
From a new orange and white steel tower, 410 feet high and clean-cut as a Sheeler painting, Columbia Broadcasting System's WABC, without any increase in power, last week made itself heard with doubled intensity over a large section of the Eastern seaboard.
* The U.S. diabetes rate had doubled from 12.7 deaths per 100,000 in 1906 to 25.6 in 1939. Reasons: 1) more people are examined for life-insurance policies now, so more cases come to light; 2) the population is growing older, and diabetes is a disease of middle life.
Moreover, among U.S. stations, a movement has been under way to break away from the National Association of Broadcasters, trade association more or less dominated by the big chains, and to which more than half of the 882 U.S. stations belong. Three weeks ago in Chicago a convention, attended by...
The U.S. needs this alcohol. Each time a 16-inch naval gun is fired, 1,500 Ib. of smokeless powder, which took 60 gallons of alcohol to manufacture, is blasted into air and even a rifle shot blows up enough alcohol to make a cocktail. U.S. alcohol output is not...