Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...virus may have appeared in Australia and been carried to other countries by heavy war time traffic. But Dr. Stimson thinks that doctors have just begun to notice what has been happening all along. Possible reasons why the worst damage is done in the early months: 1) the placental barrier which tends to prevent transmission of disease from mother to child takes several months to develop fully; 2) the embyro is more susceptible to infection than the fetus later...
Last week, with MacArthur's recapture of Manila, the U.S. passed a great milestone in World War II. In the final, dark hours of the week, as U.S. mechanized cavalrymen battered through a Japanese road barrier and roared into Manila from the east, the event was more than the attaining of a great objective: it was a high-water mark in the inexorable rising tide of the American war effort. No one doubted that there would be hard fighting aplenty before the Philippines were entirely redeemed; but Manila was the crown and symbol of the entire Southwest Pacific campaign...
Possible Pause? He might well pause to regroup before assaulting this formidable river barrier (the bridge across the Oder at Frankfurt is 900 feet long), after his steel-tipped surge of 225 miles in 23 days. Lieut. General Patton had raced across France, some 300 miles in six weeks, before he ran out of gasoline...
...Over the Barriers. The Nida River was now an incident in the taking of ancient Cracow, Poland's fourth city and the gateway to southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida...
...Rainbow" lauds the resistance of the Russian partisans, a shorter co-feature, "Leningrad Music Hall," points to Soviet efforts and artistic successes in peacetime life. While it is pretty well chopped up, the picture has many intervals of greatness; its artistic appeal is universal, and avoids the language barrier necessarily present to some extent in "The Rainbow...