Word: similar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wheat and rye are only superficially similar; they belong to different genera of the grass family. Non-Soviet geneticists believe (on the basis of thousands of experiments) that to make one turn into the other would be as difficult as making a cat give birth to puppies. But such Westerners are neglecting a new factor in genetics: the miracle-passing powers of Joseph Stalin...
...Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last week, the top brass of two big league ball clubs eyed each other for size and vulnerability. Both were suffering similar symptoms: the New York Giants had some stars who did not speak Manager Leo Durocher's roughneck language and the Boston Braves had a long list of players who were incompatible with easygoing Manager Billy Southworth. A swap might keep both from repeating their indifferent 1949 showings...
...spending 15 billion lire ($24 million) on a project to improve the land, plans to settle 20,000 peasant families there. They will be instructed in crop rotation and other modern agricultural methods, get new tools and fertilizers. The U.S. has earmarked about $240 million for about 100 similar reclamation projects in Italy...
Such groups, Archbishop Gushing told the Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies, were a "refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." Cautioning Catholics against being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...
...Roger A. Harvey, in charge of Hotchkiss' treatment, will not say that the patient has been cured until five years have passed without a recurrence of the growth. But no similar deep-seated growth, beginning to spread to the lymph glands, has ever before yielded so dramatically to any nonsurgical type of treatment...