Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Output per farm worker in the U.S. has been multiplied 2½ times in the past 50 years. In 1787 it took 19 American farm people to support one other person, in addition to feeding themselves. Nowadays 19 farm people can support themselves, 56 other Americans and ten persons in other countries...
Drab, Socialist and hard-pressed Britain badly needed a flash of color, a majestic reminder of past glory. Last week it got one. The pageantry lasted for only a few hours; the worries, the austerity would remain...
...extremely dubious about nationalization. Recently one Laborite M.P., Ivor Thomas, 42, M.P. for Keighley, resigned from the party rather than support the government's program. Speaking from the opposition benches last week, Mr. Thomas said: "The most obvious result of the government's activities in the past three years has been an immense concentration of power in the hands of the state and corresponding weakening of the power of the individual to stand for himself . . . The French Revolution did at least give the world the ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The slogans of the Labor revolution appear...
Sulfa drugs, used with streptomycin, a combination discovered within the past few years, protect against the two most common forms of the plague: bubonic, which attacks the lymph glands, and pneumonic, which attacks the lungs. Sulfa drugs alone work too, in most cases after bubonic plague has struck. In one district in rural China, said Dr. Pollitzer, his WHO teams found 44 cases, saved 41. For the pneumonic form, there is rabbit serum, developed two years ago at the Hooper Foundation's animal building, known to laboratory workers and San Francisco newspapers as "Mousetown"; rabbits, like man but unlike...
Princeton's Tiger has been burning bright these past few weeks. After their dismal first half season the Tigers suddenly came to life two Saturdays ago, taking a 16-14 thriller from Columbia. They routed Virginia 55-14 last week and looked more and more like the 1947 Big Three champions who just one year ago trampled Harvard into the Stadium...