Word: bath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooke's Barricade. What the correspondents saw was a defense-in-depth system beginning at the beaches with barbed wire and machine-gun nests, some of them made of bathing machines (bath houses on wheels) filled with pebbles. Tank traps, road blocks, concealed artillery filled the defense zone to a depth of 20 miles (see pictures, p. 31). Mobile and mechanized forces were poised farther inland, to be rushed wherever needed. The system was the same, with improvements based on bitter experience, as the one which Sir Alan constructed between Lille and the Somme last winter while...
During the Arab-Jewish riots of 1936 in Jerusalem, Dr. Edward G. Joseph of Hadassah Hospital had many a patient whose abdomen was badly shot up. Dr. Joseph did not resort to drainage. Instead, he operated in a blood bath, stitched up his patients' intestines, closed their abdomens without further ado. When the victims recovered like clockwork, with no hint of peritonitis, he decided that free outpouring of blood in the peritoneal cavity might be more help than harm...
...their ships. But the British, when they steamed triumphantly into Alexandria with their prisoners, admitted no losses in this first clear-cut victory over the Italian Navy. For this action, King George promptly made Captain John Collins of the Sydney a Companion of the Order of the Bath. Commander Hugh Nicholson, senior officer of the destroyer force, got a bar added...
...aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places in the world is a bathroom. But Dr. Dublin has an answer even for that one-an article called "How to Take a Bath and Live...
...Lyon's worst fears seemed confirmed when Mr. Towne, a lusty cigar chewer who does much of his cogitating in a Turkish bath, picked New Jerseyite Jimmy Lydon as his Tom Brown, then achieved the casting coup of the century by selecting Billy Halop, ringleader of the Dead End Kids, to play a Rugby blood. Though the Towne publicity department explained this choice as the result of a sensational Halop imitation of Basil Rathbone, alarmed Rugbyites peppered Hollywood with protests that gave the British censors some of the liveliest reading of the year...