Word: act
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social side of college life will take care of itself. In other words, it is necessarily unplanned, spontaneous. No planning is done by the college; Harvard treats its students as men, assumes that they will act as such. It is good psychology, and it works. No planning is done by other students: there are no prescribed rites for Freshmen, no hazing. And none is done by the individual, as a general rule. Bull sessions make themselves; so do trips to Wellesley, football weekends, spring riots. Even extra-curricular activities of the more serious sort--writing for publications, playing for athletic...
Penetration v. Laceration. Battlefield wounds are of two main types: penetrating, lacerating. Penetrating wounds are caused by bomb fragments and bullets, lacerating wounds by high explosive bombs. "Secondary bodies" may also act as missiles. "Thus the contents of a victim's pockets," say Drs. Mitchiner and Cowell, "may be peppered by the force of the burst bomb, and such things as ... penknives, coins and pencils may be found distributed in the body, and occasionally outside objects such as pebbles, bits of masonry, and even the bones and soft tissues of a nearby victim may cause wounds." Grease, dirt...
...veteran and radio an untried rookie, and 2) that if radio proved itself a "good child," well-mannered, etc., it would be left to itself; but if it turned out to be a bad one, the Government disposition would be to "teach it some manners." Under the Federal Communications Act the President could, in any national emergency or merely to safeguard U. S. neutrality, shut down any or all radio stations. Already the President had proclaimed U. S. neutrality, was preparing his declaration of "limited national emergency...
When President Roosevelt last week invoked the provisions of the Neutrality Act (see p. 9), U. S. aircraft makers were unable to export any more fighting planes. They still had nearly half of recent $160,000,000 British and French orders to deliver but they did not worry. They had stipulated in their contracts that in just this event they should be paid when the planes were delivered to Allied agents within the U. S. The Allies have to take the chance that the Neutrality Act will be modified so that they can use their property...
...when the Neutrality Act stopped the export of airplanes it did not stop the export of several other necessities of war-necessities that are life savers instead of life takers. Among them are: Pharmaceuticals (big makers: Parke, Davis & Co., Abbott Laboratories), surgical dressings (big makers: Johnson & Johnson, the Kendall Co.), gas masks (big maker: Mine Safety Appliances Co.),parachutes (world's biggest maker: Irving Air Chute...