Word: availing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with his military duty. He simply swears that he has no means to pay for private care, and a 1935 law has been interpreted as forbidding the VA to check up on his story. Doctors and medical administrators have long protested this soft-headed provision, but to no avail. Last week Republican Congressman John Phillips of California told how it is being abused...
...final news and ed board competition doesn't begin until tomorrow, but there will be many more opportunities for interested candidates to avail themselves of Clocker's secret advice during the spring racing season...
...Sawed-Off Skull. In the end, neither antibiotics nor leeches could avail. Stalin's heart raced faster & faster, up to 150 beats a minute, in its automatic effort to compensate for the small volume of blood it could pump. (The coronary artery, supplying the heart's own muscle was diseased like the rest.) Half of Stalin's brain was already dead. When his heart stopped the rest of the brain died and with...
...prerogatives still left to the British Crown is the right to claim all sturgeon caught in British waters. It is a privilege few monarchs avail themselves of, for English sturgeon, unlike its zestier Russian cousin, is a flat and flavorless fish unfit for a Queen. For this reason, royalty's rights became a matter of mere second thought last week when Fisherman Fred Warman sailed into Grimsby with a 40-lb. sturgeon in his hold. Warman let the sturgeon go at auction along with the rest of his catch, to Fishmonger Oscar Cleve for 3s, 4¾d. (about...
...will level off and continue at a rate of $53 billion a year till mid-1955. Buying power will also increase; recent wage boosts will add an estimated $7 billion to 1953's in come. And the U.S. consumer has a record $283 billion of accumulated savings avail able for deferred purchases...