Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bohemian doctor brought one of his countrymen to Dr. Carlson's laboratory. Fred Vlcek, now known to medical school freshmen as "Mr. V.," was a barber who as a child had accidentally swallowed strong caustic soda solution. The soda burned his esophagus, and the scar tissue which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit...
...Axis it looked as if the London-Washington Axis were dealing from the bottom of the deck. An angry cry went up. The Italian radio sneered that President Roosevelt had "lowered himself" by going to meet an Ambassador. In Popolo d'ltalia Journal ist Luigi Barzini assured his countrymen that "in the crucial period of the war-not too remote-Great Britain will have received only a few thousand planes" from...
...bosses of British air power had some encouraging words for their battered countrymen last week. > Relieved of his post as Chief of the R. A. F. Fighter Command in November to undertake a mission to discuss plane production in Canada and the U. S., Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding arrived in Ottawa, told newsmen: "During the past autumn a method has been found to deal with the night-bombing menace and equipment is being rapidly completed. Of course, I'm not at liberty to give you any details of the methods to be used, but I confidently...
Graduation didn't nick the team severely; it took the best jumper, Dick Whittemore, and a couple of cross-countrymen. The main need now is for a good jumping specialist. A week spent during the past vacation at Stowe and Hanover has served pretty well to show who the standouts are. Although conditions were slush and ice most of the time, the four events were pretty well covered in practice each...
...effectively on the side of democracy. Already they had made a beginning. Waldo Frank had written one guide in his Chart For Rough Water. Mumford had written another in his simple and moving book Faith for Living, while in seven words he phrased what until then millions of his countrymen had felt obscurely: "The struggle is for the human soul...