Word: anis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris a small, thin Jewish boy from Budapest was learning to say the Pater Noster. Since he had come to live with French foster parents he had almost for gotten the old prayer, Mole ani lefa-neha...
...encouraged her love affairs, helped her marry, scandalized the neighbors, dwarfed her surroundings with her tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish hands and a silhouette which, while not paunchy, "had a curve to it." Middle-Aged Quivers. One day Lily B. met an old schoolmate and he asked...
Polectron, Promika. Bob McConnell's new scientists had one big advantage over all the other men in the U.S. struggling with the same problem: they had Ani line's bulky file of German experiments on synthetic mica. With the aid of this know-how, last summer they came up with Polectron - a resin made from plentiful materials including coal, tar, water and limestone. General Electric tested Polectron for a while, at length evolved from it a finished mica substitute which it named Promika...
...miles of trenches to drain a 345-acre tract of Chicago swampland, on which rose the Union Stock Yards. Last week the yards - now biggest in the world, centre of Chicago's only billion-dollar -a-year industry - observed their 78th anniversary. Over their scales 896 million ani mals have been sold...
...taken from the front line." Against the time when air raids may begin, a National Air Raid Precautions Animals Committee was organized. A gentle, chunky Scot named Colonel Robert John Stordy was chosen as chief administrator. He went to Ethiopia during the Italian campaign to treat gassed ani mals, spent much of his time treating gassed Ethiopians. Last week N.A.R.P.A.C. as urging Britons to observe a list...