Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three juniors with speed to burn, Joe Kane, Bob Odell, and Bill Miller, are enough to make any defense pant, This trio, which will see action at wingback and tailback slots, should bring plenty of trouble for the Crimson ends. When these boys run, they...
...rubber pant is of similar thickness to a surgeon's rubber glove; it is well known that these gloves become dangerous to wear after 15 minutes' exposure to mustard-gas vapor. This particular grade of rubber is not only an inadequate protection but even accentuates mustard-gas burns as well as permanently contaminating the rubber itself. Mustard gas is soluble in rubber and a droplet that would produce only a small blister on bare skin may spread through the entire rubber surface, in time, and burn the whole enclosed area...
...within her shroud of smoke and steam. But messages beep-beeping from the sparks' cabins aboard the cruiser and the destroyers told the story. "The engines are still okay. Fire hasn't got below B deck. The captain (Coast Guard Commander Harold Gardner Bradbury) thinks it will burn out the superstructure...
...have weathered the stormy days at the League when Emma Goldman, as well as other communists, lectured at the institution, shouting 'down with the Louvre, throw it into the Seine, and the Royal Academy into the Thames. Tear down the Metropolitan Museum stone by stone and burn the works of the brush-swinging hacks that go by the name of Old Masters.' " When, in 1936, the League's models staged a sitdown strike, Conservative Bridgman just sat tight. At the Art Students League, a teacher's tenure is subject to the vote of the student body...
Diabetes also increases as the standard of living rises. Labor-saving machinery relieves more & more people of heavy food-burning physical work, and food itself becomes more abundant. Large amounts of food (especially sugar) burden the pancreas. This organ secretes insulin to burn up and store carbohydrates, which have been digested to sugars. If an individual inherits a tendency toward diabetes, his hard-pressed pancreas may slow down or stop producing insulin. Out of every 20 diabetics more than 40 years old, 17 were overweight before the disease appeared...