Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much as by its revealing details. Left out are the much-touted flame-throwing tanks and the anti-tank rifle, bigger than an elephant gun. which the Germans copied from the Poles and with which every infantry platoon is now supposed to be equipped. Most impressive is the constant presence of artillery far up in the front lines. Wherever there are tanks, there too is artillery, to batter enemy tanks. Engineers are everywhere, too, building pontoon bridges, clearing debris, mining obstacles. The slow, energy-saving step of the infantry is impressive...
...pneumonia can be caused by: 1) constant use of oily nose drops; 2) nightly doses of mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia...
...great weight squeezed the land below, pressed it down. Since the ice retreated northward 15,000 to 25,000 years ago, the ground once under it has been springing back upward, like a dry sponge after a weight on top of it is taken away. This recovery is not constant, takes place as a series of intermittent jerks. Long intervals may separate the jerks, but when one occurs it makes a minor quake...
...Many a gourmet and amateur cook has stubbornly maintained that no souffle lit to eat can be turned out without the proper French oven ware. For them, the fall of France was a calamity because French ware was fragile and subject to constant replacement. As Czecho-Slovakia, the Low Countries, Sweden and Italy were consecutively blocked out, U. S. manufacturers found themselves with all but a fraction (Great Britain's) of the $100,000,000 U. S. pottery and china market on their hands. They were geared to supply two-thirds of it, no more. Last week they were...
...Connell, Archbishop of Boston, denouncing those who would have America "become a sort of tail end of a foreign empire," his Sist. Tom Mooney, labor saint, his 58th, at St. Luke's hospital, San Francisco, where in ten months he has undergone three abdominal operations, four transfusions. William Constant Wheeler, the nation's only authentic son of the Revolution, at his South Woodbury, Vt. farmhouse, his 93rd. His father, who volunteered under Washington at the age of 14, was 81 when William Constant Wheeler was born...