Word: bock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flamboyant Erwin Rommel and cold-mouthed Fedor von Bock were Germany's two top generals in a year whose laurels were reserved primarily for fighting men. Rommel, who drove to within 70 miles of Alexandria before he was stopped by the British, established himself as one of the great virtuosos among field commanders. Bock directed a brilliant campaign which reached the west bank of the Volga, but the final spark that would have meant victory...
...Namely: Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, recently put over all France, 66; Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, Prussian who helped conquer Poland, Paris, the North Caucasus, 61; Field Marshal Siegmund List, who led the Balkan campaign, 62; Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, who commands the northern front in Russia...
...history of the Step Test begins back in 1927 in the Fatigue Lab. There Dr. Arlie V. Bock, head of the Hygiene Department, and Dr. David B. Dill, now director of the Fatigue Lab, with their co-workers and under the leadership of the late Professor Lawrence J. Henderson, former director of the Lab, began the study of the normal human being's reactions to muscular exercise. They were aiming to use their findings principally in connection with industrial fatigue...
Although pneumonitis, unlike the similar "true influenza" of 1918, is deadly in only a few isolated cases, Bock added, it is a very unpleasant thing to have, and it can be avoided. Students should live wisely, he said, avoid the sudden changes in temperature, such as the trip from the "fright Stadium to the warmth of a room flowing with cocktails" which so many students made last Saturday...
There is no medical treatment for the disease except careful nursing and hospitalization, Bock said. It may last from several weeks in those of College age, to months in older people, though if the discase is caught early it is usually of shorter duration...