Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly half an hour the battle raged, two raiders against one freighter. Heavily outgunned, the merchantman made every shell count. Ensign Willett saw the stern of the smaller raider burst into flame. Then a shell blew up the merchantman's main boiler, reduced her speed to one knot. A few seconds later another shell hit the magazine...
...Died. Count Raoul de Roussy de Sales, 46, French journalist, lecturer, interpreter of current history (The Making of Tomorrow); after a long illness; in Manhattan. He was one of the most influential of De Gaulle's champions in the U.S., where he had lived since 1932. He was educated in Paris and in England, came to the U.S. to cover the New Deal for the Revue de Paris, worked as correspondent for Paris-Soir, Paris-Midi, L'Europe Nouvelle and Havas News Agency before the fall of France...
Then began dosages of 500 mg. a day for eleven patients still sneezing in Oberlin's lushly pollenized air (count: 80 - sneezing begins at 15). After a few days all except two felt fine. An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (But asthmatics sometimes improve on sugar pills - sometimes their illness is largely mental.) In a burst of bravery, sufferer No. 25, who had previously taken no vitamin C at all, took a 1,000-mg. dose. Next day he experienced "great relief...
...Baker took his match 15-6, 15-8, 15-10, while Dudley Palmer rang up the most decisive score, 15-7, 15-8, 15-8, over Nate Greenberg. George Clay, playing number six, won by a 15-7, 15-8, 15-11 count over Paul Wheeler...
Since over 50% of the Freshmen now enrolled at New Haven are below 18 years of age, and that percentile is expected to increase, the president does not expect too sharp a drop in matriculation figures. "Many boys entering Yale can count on from two to four years of college work, which we would believe of the greatest value before entering the armed services," he said...