Word: corded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Political unity of the world is inevitable in our lifetime," Cord Meyer, Jr., Junior Fellow, told an enthusiastic audience in Sever 11 last night at a meeting sponsored by the World Federalists and the American Veterans Committee...
...tail of the announcement of the Russian bomb, the Harvard branch of the American Veterans Committee and the World Federalists tonight bring Cord Meyer Jr. to Harvard to examine the "Consequences of Soviet Atom Bomb Production...
...treatment is chancy, too. About 100,000 people get the vaccine each year (as a precaution, in most cases). How many die from it-because of inflammation of the brain and spinal cord-no one knows; the U.S. Public Health Service believes that it kills almost as many as are killed by rabies. Doctors have a grave responsibility in deciding whether to use the vaccine...
Death in a Flue. Not all masters were so "humane." Phillips cites, among many others, the case of Master Joseph Rae who, after an eleven-year-old apprentice had tried for five hours to free himself from a narrow flue, "sent another apprentice up the flue to attach a cord to one of [his] legs. Despite the agonized shrieks of the tortured boy, Rae and another man hauled on their end of the rope with all their strength. Finally, when neither shrieks nor groans were heard, Rae, sensing that the boy was dead, drank a dram of whiskey and left...
...only snatched Mrs. Roosevelt's memoirs away from the Goulds, but took her monthly answer page to boot. With a jubilant scrambling of metaphors he described his catch as "the biggest plum in the women's magazine field . . . the Journal's umbilical cord with its readers...