Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain that there are more unknown infantrymen with their feet on the laboratory firesteps of medical science than in any other field of endeavor in the world. Not only an outbreak approaches an epidemic does the public wonder how many nascent Black Plagues have been stamped out in a test tube...
When he was 15, his father, realizing his nascent business ability, let him come into the brickyard as bookkeeper. The boy reorganized the yard, developed year-round work instead of seasonal...
...pronouncement of Cardinal Hayes that "decent people cannot go to the theatre" makes the members of the nascent Harvard Theatregoers Club seem a singularly vicious set of young...
...Chemical Warfare Service-Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Vedder and Captain Harold P. Sawyer-reported that they had met with great success administering chlorine gas as treatment for respiratory diseases, there was general rejoicing. It was hoped that properly regulated whiffing of pungent, biting, acrid, yellowish fumes of nascent chlorine might one day rid man of all his breathing diseases, from plain "sniffles" on up through asthma and whooping cough to consumption. But such hope was dampened, last week, by a report from Dr. Louis I. Harris of the Health Department of New York City. Impressed by the news of Messrs...