Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both Lowell and Leverett have had the chance to brush up on their offensives, which appeared potentially strong but actually ineffective. The Bunnies must concentrate on developing a scoring punch, which was woefully lacking in their initial contest with Dudley. Although losing 6 to 0, the Leverttmen rolled up 18 first downs to their opponents' three...
Idaho. Leftish Senator Glen ("Cowboy") Taylor is out beating the brush for squat Attorney-Rancher George Donart. Thus Republican Henry Dworshak is running against two tough campaigners. Four-term Congressman Dworshak has a fair chance in an uphill race...
...victor of Tatung was General Fu Tso-yi, 51, governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press...
...Maternal Health Association's new "Fertility Clinic"-a project of Cleveland's famed Brush Foundation which brings together previously scattered services-an internist, endocrinologist, urologist, gynecologist, nutritionist and psychiatrist have joined in a many-sided attack on the problem. To the young married couples who come to the clinic, they give thorough physical and mental examinations, prescribe special diets and hygiene rules. Sometimes they use surgery and drugs. Hormones may help, but endocrinologists have found no support for the idea that the "male hormone" (testosterone) increases fertility...
...pictures illustrated Japanese triumphs. Among the best was Raid on Pearl Harbor (painted from an aerial photograph) by Fujita, a little man in bangs and Harold Lloyd spectacles who once wowed Paris with his brush drawings of cats and catlike women. Other standouts: Junkichi Mukei's Bataan Death March and Hoshin Yamaguchi's General Attack on Hong Kong, which had an Oriental delicacy of line only partly obscured by smoke from the burning city...