Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touched by the folksy pleas to the steak eaters of Hollywood from the managements of the Brown Derby, Romanoff's and La Rue's, as reported in TIME, Dec. 5. It is a fact that the prices we ranchers receive have dropped about 30% in the past year, but . . . there seems to be a whole ambush of Ethiopians in the woodpile somewhere between here and the tables at Romanoff's. Maybe if some of you who have heaped the whole onus of beef prices on our heads for the past several years would look into the devious...
June. In Miami, Fred H. Kautzmann charged that the James Drug Shop had mixed two prescription labels, causing him for the past year to rub stomach medicine on his scalp and drink his hair tonic...
...20th Century has a characteristic unique in history - the headlong, accelerating growth of scientific knowledge. The curve of knowledge is exponential, growing steeper like the curve of squares (1-4-9-16-25-36-49 . . .). It has changed men's lives more in the past 20 years than in the previous 50; more in that 50 years than in the previous 200. Man cannot, dare not stop its growth, though he does not know where it is taking...
...wide exploitation of these inventions, largely in the past 50 years, was another matter. Since 1900, the life of technological man has changed beyond recognition. He acquired unprecedented mobility, and electronic eyes and ears. Through public sanitation and chemotherapy, his internal parasites (disease microorganisms) were practically eliminated as causes of death in advanced countries. Nothing comparable had happened since man's external parasites (carnivorous animals) were licked back in the Stone Age. As a result, the average civilized man lives to a good old age instead of dying young. The effects of this deep biological change are being felt...