Word: effectively
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Leisure to Invest. Modern man's increased leisure, largely due to power-driven machines, is having an effect only a little less basic. For one thing, the average man now can let his children be educated; they are not needed immediately for productive work. More & more of their early years can be invested in education-which makes them more productive later on. In the 19th Century few children went beyond grammar school. Now some 40% of U.S. children go through high school, about 7% graduate from college. One important byproduct: more trained personnel for the research laboratories that...
...doctors report, has its most Striking effect in reducing fever, spitting, and the poisoning of the body by tubercle bacilli. It also gives the patient a sense of wellbeing. A gain in weight often results from the treatment: one tuberculosis patient, who had been in & out of hospitals for 20 years, put on 26 Ibs. in four months. Used with streptomycin, PAS is invaluable in keeping down the development of strains of germs which have learned to resist streptomycin. The drug, conclude the doctors, is so promising that it should be tested more widely...