Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Malaria, the most widespread and destructive, is caused by a microscopic parasite, the Plasmodium, carried by many species of the Anopheles mosquito. The chills, fever and delirium of malaria may recur for many years. Malaria can be treated by constant doses of quinine, and a newer drug, stabrine. But there is no immunization against malaria. Warned Dr. Meleney: "We may expect a tremendous morbidity and mortality from malaria in the armed forces during the present conflict...
...building fulfills a great need by providing adequate and modern storage and reading facilities for a quarter of a million of the University's most valuable books. In order to preserve the volumes, the humidity and temperature will be kept constant, and the air will be purified by chemical washing, filtering, and electrical precipitation...
...manpower ratio was approximately constant: Douglas MacArthur's 20,000 men against the Jap's 150,000-200,000. The technique was approximately the same: a lull, then a fierce, full-strength Japanese attack against some point on one of the smallest fronts of World War II. The outcome was hearteningly familiar: after three days of intensive attack last week, the Jap retired to catch his breath, to count his heavy casualties, to scheme up an-(continued on p. 26) other go at Bataan Peninsula's defenders...
Until American Gothic made him an overnight sensation at the age of 38, Painter Wood's life was a constant fight against poverty. He was born in 1892 on a farm in Iowa's rolling Jones County. When his farmer father died, the Wood family moved to nearby Cedar Rapids, where ten-year-old Grant helped support his mother and three other children by doing chores for the neighbors. After working his way through high school, he drifted about the Middle West as a jewelry craftsman, a night watchman in a mortuary, a country schoolteacher...
Propaganda for home consumption may be intended as a stimulant, a sedative or a cathartic. For enemies it should be poison. Either way, German propaganda works less well than it used to. The German people are tired of constant medication, and the non-Axis world is learning to reject poison, acquiring immunity to what is absorbed inadvertently. But the Axis poisoners were trying harder than ever, and enlightened immunologists issued warnings...