Word: killing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this as his great opportunity to prove to the important interests in his district how much he loved them. A drumfire of amendments hit the House hopper; soon the Barden Bill was riddled. Failing to recognize his brain child in the messy result, Mr. Barden urged the House to kill the monstrosity-which was mercifully done...
That soap and hot water will kill pneumococci, streptococci, gonococci, meningococci, diphtheria bacilli, and the syphilis spirochete, doctors have long known. Last week in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, Bacteriologists Charles Chester Stock and Thomas Francis Jr. of New York University told of their successful experiments in making influenza vaccine from virus and soap solution...
Others were quick to follow his lead. Last week Drs. Salman A. Waksman and H. Boyd Woodruff reported discovery of agents from soil which kill "gram-negative" (red-staining) germs-such as those of typhoid fever, dysentery and cholera. But scientists are going ahead cautiously. The protective value of both "gram-positive" and "gram-negative" destroyers has yet to be tried on human beings...
Lethal Silver. It has long been known that silver is a deadly killer of one-celled organisms, and silver has been widely used as a germicide. It used to be thought, how ever, that from 100,000 to 100,000,000 silver atoms were needed to kill a cell. Last week Physicist Alexander Goetz of Caltech described experiments showing that under favorable circumstances just one silver atom will kill a cell - a feat roughly comparable to the killing of a dinosaur by a gnat...
...difference between right and wrong, and that it should take its stand squarely on the side of Great Britain and France, who are fighting for a cause essentially our own. We are not enamoured of war for war's sake; we are not anxious to have our young men kill and be killed. But we stand ready to play our part in whatever way is for the best advantage of our allies...