Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blood & Steel. But it had taken Rus sian lives and steel to alter the maps, to change the goals. Both Moscow and Berlin last week totaled up the cost to each other of the summer and fall offensive, came out with incredible but nevertheless significant figures...
...Strauss's idea is to alter the flutter ratio by stiffening the fluttering parts with small areas of scar tissue. These are produced by tiny injections of an irritating drug, sylnasol, which produces small fibrous areas wherever injected. He tried sylnasol on seven married patients. Treatment was repeated every week for five or six weeks. The only discomforts reported were a feeling of thickness at the back of the throat or a five-minute earache...
...would relinquish the power (in the first plan) to veto a change in the value of the currency of any nation participating in the fund. The revised plan requires only a three-fourths vote (instead of four-fifths) to alter exchange rates, and the U.S.'s vote could not exceed...
...controlled Saigon radio got its foot in its mouth. Commentator Captain Kahn insisted that the resignation "of one man from the Italian Government makes no difference. The resignation of Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister did not alter the British will to fight...
...interesting contrast between the idioms of the two centuries, and between different methods of arrangement. adaptation of a harpsichord suite by Dominico Scarlatti left the original melody and harmony unaltered, merely adding drum, tambourine, triangle, and xylophone to the traditional 18th century orchestra. Even those additions did not alter the character of the composition markedly, for these tinkling and rattling instruments gave an orchestral approximation of the harpsichord tone...