Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Early in the tennis season, hunch-shouldered Ted Schroeder felt he had to make a choice. He could defend his Wimbledon title in early July, or he could stay home and help defend the Davis Cup against the Australians in August. The U.S.'s top-ranking amateur was too busy earning a living (as a salesman of refrigeration equipment) to do both. Much to the relief of the Davis Cup selection committee, Ted decided to stay home...
After 2½ hours of debate, the regents were ready to make up their minds. The vote: 10 to 9 in favor of keeping the 39. With that, the end of California's bitter battle seemed at last in sight...
...people. Many of them have fewer than 6,000 books, struggle along with budgets of less than $4,000, are able to buy only 330 books a year, including replacements of worn-out favorites. At least two-thirds of all U.S. libraries have no adequate stock of reference works, make too little attempt to enrich their shelves with classics...
Once, parents would have had no choice but to accept this verdict and await the worst. But modern medical science presented the Haires with a cruel dilemma. They might, said the doctors, have one of Becky's eyes removed to make sure that she was suffering from cancer of the optic nerve, which might then be arrested. The second eye might have to be removed later. The alternative: Becky's eyes might be treated with X rays and radium. The doctors believed that she would have a 60% chance to recover after surgery, only 35% after radiation...
Chlorophyll, the complex substance that puts the green in grass, has been used for years to take cooking smells out of the kitchen. Occasionally it has been used to make putrefying wounds less obnoxious to patients and nurses. But until 1945 nobody thought of using it to make healthy people smell sweeter, inside & out. Nothing was farther from the mind of Dr. F. (for Franklin) Howard Westcott, a New York City internist, when he started giving chlorophyll to his patients...