Word: appendixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wisconsin, other U. S. colleges attach similar legends to campus statues which are said to move whenever a pure maid walks by. Under like conditions the lions in front of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue are said to roar, have, according to Author Sharp's appendix, "so far [been] observed only to yawn...
...motor launches took their toll of the vast [cross-channel] traffic which now began. For four or five days the intense struggle raged. All armored divisions, or what was left of them, together with great masses of German infantry and artillery, hurled themselves on the ever narrowing and contracting appendix within which the British and French Armies fought...
King Leopold and his Government had been aware that the German Army was again on the march as early as 9 p.m. the night prior. It was moving up from Dusseldorf and Cologne and Aachen to cross the Dutch appendix province of Limburg and strike at the Liege forts (see map, p. 23); from Trier to strike through Luxembourg at Arlon and Neuf-chateau. At 5:20 a.m. the bombs started thudding into Brussels from 100 raiders that sloped over in waves. They killed 41 civilians, wounded 82. One gutted a house across the square from the U. S. Embassy...
...last. A vacation, reading and thinking alone in Paris, made it all the more clear that Ely the "Philosopher," the "Epicurean," the "Idealist," must dethrone the "Family Man," the "Business Manager," the "Celebrity," the "Child." His story ends on the eve of an amicable divorce. An Appendix on the Mass Mind contains the most crackpot writing, the most valuable observations, in the book...
...only reason for her appendectomy the fact that on arriving in Los Angeles one day she found a big convention in full swing and all the hotels full. The only place in which she could find a bed was a hospital, so she took it and had her appendix out. She always wanted to have it done . . . sometime ... so why not then...