Word: germ
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rochester, N.Y., federal Food & Drug agents seized 108 quarts of blackstrap molasses along with 25 copies of Gayelord Mauser's popular diet book, Look Younger, Live Longer, in which the fashionable dietician touts his perfect health menus of wheat germ, yogurt, brewer's yeast and blackstrap molasses. The food men, taking a dyspeptic view of the perfect-health approach, charged that Hauser was violating the pure food laws, particularly with his claim that blackstrap would prevent menopausal difficulties, constipation, heart trouble, neuritis, also induce sleep and help grow hair...
Laboratory men are growing polio virus in human tissues, hoping eventually to find a vaccine against the germ. Researchers have discovered ways to immunize mice partially. Other doctors are finding new means to help victims walk again by surgery and exercise, while psychologists are watching the effects on patients of living in an iron lung. The likeliness and control of epidemics are also getting attention. Nearly every phase of polio is being studied at the University...
Such a vaccine is now only a plan for the future, the researchers claim. Meanwhile, they have been able to cultivate the three strains of the polio germ representing the types of virus. They can now test a patient inexpensively to determine which type of virus is the cause of his disease...
...Germ of Controversy." A divergence between Peking and Moscow over tactics and controls in Korea (or over the much more important prize of Manchuria) is certainly possible. If these differences, like those between Tito and Stalin, lend themselves to exploitation, it is a chance " that the free world ought not to miss. But, at the moment, any split between the Chinese and Russians seems to be more in wishes than in evidence...
...broad expanse of Communism. He has long looked wistfully for signs of a big fellow-dissenter in China. Even Tito's men saw the point. Last week Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj qualified the Review of International Affairs with the comment: Chinese and Russian rivalry was merely "a germ of controversy...