Word: germ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the electron microscope, the cold-causing agent appeared to be "characteristic particles ... of the same general size as viruses of the influenza type, but . . . readily distinguishable from them." The two physicians named the "germ" .V14A because it came from the first nasal washing of the 14th volunteer...
...plan, considerably expanded and revised since its germ was first proposed by Secretary Marshall at Harvard last June, took into account the use of Western Europe's last unexpended cash & credits, and the possibility of aid from other sources. But it frankly recognized that the U.S. would have to pay most of the bill. Its main points...
...supposed to work out control of germ warfare, too. It will get around to that when & if the Russians ever agree to atomic control...
Hearst Columnist Walter Winchell pulled the first trigger. In a broadcast and syndicated column, he fulminated: "The Third World War is already being fought. . . . We are losing it. ... When the Communists are ready . . . there will be 50 Pearl Harbors . . . atomic explosions erasing our cities. . . . The Communists have germ warfare already. . . . The cholera plague in Egypt is suspected abroad of being a Soviet experiment.*. . . The next countries [the Russians] intend to grab are Italy and France. . . . They need France as a base to attack Great Britain, . . . American diplomats inside the curtain are under Russian guard day & night. . . . Trained Communist spies...
...William Osler, probably the greatest medical teacher who ever lived, once warned his profession that the fate of the tubercular depended more on what they had in their heads than on what was in their chests. ... A germ or a peculiar condition of body cells is [not] the sum and substance of disease...