Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since diabetics are unable to burn up the sugar they consume, it looked as though the islands in a normal pancreas secreted some substance which acted like a spark plug. What was the spark plug? That same night, Banting read in a medical journal that if you tie off a pancreas duct, the digestive juice cells shrivel up, die. That gave him the great idea-how to get the digestive juices out of the way, to get at the spark-plug chemical. He wrote three sentences in a notebook: "Tie off pancreatic duct of dogs. Wait six to eight weeks...
Vesicants are the most efficient. They burn flesh. They stick to ground surfaces for weeks under ideal conditions, penetrate clothing, give almost no warning of their presence. They are seldom fatal, but in warfare an invalid needs more care than a corpse. Mustard gas is the most famous of the vesicants. Whereas in World War I sternutators caused one casualty for every 650 pounds of gas used, and lung injurants one per 230 pounds, blister gas was much more efficient: one per 60 pounds. There are no certain defenses against it except reprisal. But it is not the easiest...
...machine that mows down well-fed and comparatively well-equipped armies. By withholding food from conquered democracies, these people claim that we force Germany to feed her own population and to feed her subject peoples as well to prevent the outbreak of disease. Germany would then have to burn her candle at both ends and might be forced into a difficult position. With no qualms about cruelty, however, Germany would never allow such a condition to affect her effort to any large extent...
...Club, which burgeons into a union. A young upper-class couple fall in with the waiters: they want to learn the answers. To anyone who has ever seen a labor play, it is no surprise that They-the vigilantes, the Interests, the Fascists-kill the leader of the waiters, burn the club. From the leader's father, a kindly hamburger-Greek, the waiters take courage to go on, sing a chorus full of resounding Noes...
...home," a ponderous, gloomy Victorian chamber. Here three weird maiden sisters -one of them an unspeakable witch in a bathrobe-live in apparently acute sex frustration with their widowed, musical sister-in-law and her daughter. Finally the last of the weirds, afraid of becoming more so, decides to burn the house down...