Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunham Lectureship is intended "to bind closer the bonds of fellowship and understanding between students and investigators in this and foreign countries." The lecturers are appointed annually and are drawn from among the leaders of medical research by a committee at the Harvard Medical School...
Three years ago a group of its citizens, deciding that the War Between the States was over and that they should do what they could to bind up the nation's wounds, sponsored a post-season all-star football game "to cement friendship between the North and South." The first North-South game attracted a small crowd. Last week, 14,000 spectators crammed into Cramton Bowl for the third annual battle between Blue & Gray. The Yankees had a powerful team, led by Cornell's All-America Quarterback Walter Matuszczak. But the Rebels were 2-to-1 favorites. They...
...illusions that snaring the U. S. is easy. His method is to state, with great clarity, the peril to the U. S. if England falls. He points out that in that case no commitment, however solemn, short of America's participation in the war as an ally, can bind the British Fleet to sail to Canada or the U. S. Only if the U. S. were fighting by Britain's side could British sailors feel guaranteed that they and their ships would be used to reconquer their homes, free their families. Granting Brailsford's premises, his conclusion...
...their country, has done an act beyond the Constitution." He said he would go to Congress as a guardian who has invested the money of a ward might go to him when he came of age and say: "I did this for your good; I pretend no right to bind you; you may disavow me, and I must get out of the scrape as I can; I thought it my duty to risk myself...
...shelters which would withstand anything but 500-lb. bombs within 30 ft. were available for 12,000,000 persons. Ready also were 2,000 first-aid stations, 190,000 ambulances, 300,000 hospital beds. The public was urged to carry clean handkerchiefs or towels, be ready to see and bind up severe wounds. Lovers were warned not to park in country lanes lest they be shot as suspicious characters. Plans were rushed to evacuate 20,000 children to North America and all interned aliens, lest they be released to help the invaders. With the first wholesale loads of German bombs...