Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...today.' As you walk on to the floor a messenger in full sprint about knocks you down. The great paneled room resembles a large railroad station at 5 p.m. when commuters are racing for trains. High above the trading floor are the big blackboards carrying quotations for wheat, corn and other commodities...
High Pressure. "On the floor below is utter confusion. To the left is the big wheat pit. To the right, the corn pit and the smaller oats and cotton pits. In front of them are batteries of desks with phones connected to brokerage houses...
...lays its eggs, why it seems to have thrived only in one narrow area. Doctors have found no effective treatment for verruga. Natives burn animal dung and pungent eucalyptus leaves in their huts to keep out the sandfly. They also dose themselves with red wine and water in which corn silk has been boiled. Neither measure does much good. The natives appear to survive mainly because those who live through a mild form of verruga in childhood develop immunity...
...What did you get for corn ten or eleven years ago?" the proprietor asked...
...crucial source of a war prisoner's suffering-monotony-without making the movie itself too monotonous to sit through. The makers of this film have not quite solved this dilemma. There is some pretty good suspense, some drama of a routine sort and a fair amount of corn. But life around the camp sometimes seems rather busy and always seems comfortable and jolly...