Word: 151st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begins its 151st year, what is the biggest job facing the 20,000 men & women in P.H.S.? Says the new P.H.S. head, Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele, 41: "By 1950, one out of every ten Americans will be 65 years of age or older. The diseases to which this older population are most susceptible are the very ones which are least understood by medical science...
...dusk fell, the army fell out along the road. We slept. Next day about noon we arrived at divisional headquarters, four miles behind the lines. We had been assigned to the famed 151st Division, whose chief of staff 25 years ago was Chiang Kaishek. The 151st, like all Chinese divisions, was understrength. The entire division had two pieces of artillery-two antique French 75's-several mortars, some machine guns and rifles. It also had guts. What it had to do was to move up the hills in the daylight, ignoring Jap artillery, and dig live Japs...
...mile mark, he was passed by another Maserati, owned by onetime Driver Lou Moore and driven by little Mauri Rose. When Rose was forced to drop out after 152 miles because of carburetor trouble, it looked like a cinch for Shaw. Then, rounding a turn on the 151st lap (380 miles), Shaw's car threw a tire, did a triple spin, crashed into the retaining wall. Shaw was not seriously hurt and the crowd soon forgot about...
When the Republic of France died last week, four days before the 151st anniversary of Bastille Day, it was a solemn hour for lovers of freedom, especially in the U. S. Although the Declaration of Independence was written 13 years before the Bastille fell, the American and French Revolutions had the same ideological roots, and in the minds of Americans and Frenchmen alike the words Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité evoked the same ideals as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. For a century and a quarter the U. S. and France watched those ideals spread across most...