Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Cairo and London last week came cautiously worded hints that Field Marshal Rommel's thrust into Egypt, if it went far enough, might meet an active fifth column of disgruntled natives. Singapore, Burma, India and Pearl Harbor have been revealing examples of what might happen. Censorship and a hope-for-the-best attitude cloud the picture in Egypt...
When a soldier is wounded by shrapnel, or a civilian by splinters of flying glass, don't treat the wound with an antiseptic. This piece of advice was given by the Journal of the American Medical Association last week. In fact, said the editor of its correspondence column, "The use of iodine or mercurials in such wounds is to be discouraged or even forbidden." Reason: antiseptics may kill more body cells than bacteria, thereby prevent healing. First Aiders should do no more than stop bleeding, place a pad of sterile gauze on the wound...
...letter, published in his column last week, Carens proposed that President Conant grant the Army and Navy Relief Society free use of Soldiers Field for the annual game, this year to be held as a benefit...
...Announcement in the Society Column of the Buffalo Evening News...
Columnist Clapper confirms his pragmatism thus: "Public opinion will not tolerate indefinitely theories that don't work in practice." He consciously writes his column for "the people I knew out in Kansas," and his favorite maxim is "Never overestimate the people's knowledge nor underestimate their intelligence...