Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office composed a precautionary reprise: "The Prime Minister wishes it known that the possibility of German attempts at an invasion by no means has passed away. The fact that the Germans now are putting out rumors that they do not intend an invasion should be regarded with the double dose of suspicion which attaches to all their utterances. Our sense of growing strength and preparedness must not lend to the slightest relaxation of vigilance or moral alertness...
...colleague. Some of Cinemactor Stone's heartiest chuckles may be explained by the fact that 17-year-old Judy Garland, growing prettier by the picture and armed for this one with two good songs, Alone and I'm Nobody's Baby, treats Mickey with a dose of his own medicine...
...gets none of this feeling from a symphony like the Brahms First. Here there is no free flow in the melodic line, but the most clogged turgidity. To my mind, at least, there is the effect of a good deal of patient labor behind it all, a solid dose of elbow-grease and midnight-oil, with little to back it up. Everything gives the impression of being too carefully and consciously calculated. Moreover, the orchestration is muddy and inflated. There are those, and I am one of them, who dislike Tchaikowski's excessively ballet type of orchestration, his pizzicato...
...fine on those who (after June 12) "display, handle or use a snake or reptile in a religious service." Pastor George Washington Hensley last week told how his church, by testing faith by poison, had already got around the Legislature: "Brother Bradley Shell took a large dose of strychnine powders about 6 o'clock. We stayed with him until 11:30 and there was no bad effect on him because of his faith...
...stated, Harvard's position is unassailable. But across the Charles stands Thomas Dorgan, author of the teachers' oath law, who refuses to accept that position. He points to a clause in the state constitution which calls on Harvard teachers to dose their pupils with correct moral principles. On the grounds that Russell's appointment violates that clauses, Dorgan is seeking to block by court action his appearance here...