Word: eucalyptuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the baron and about 130 of his brainy countrymen were at Sukhum, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Well-fed, well-paid and well-treated, they live in a comfortable manor house, surrounded by palm trees and fragrant eucalyptus gardens. A mile away is their laboratory, where they work with a roughly equal number of Russian colleagues on an intensive program of atomic research...
...years, have tried a vast variety of applications, including tannic acid (a component of tea), silver nitrate, hormone ointment, triple aniline dyes, sulphur water, cold water, ice, and a concoction of paraffin wax, sulfanilamide, menthol, camphor, vaseline and cod liver oil, the whole topped off by oil of eucalyptus to kill the smell...
Students still found time to stroll under the chiming Campanile in the shade of the eucalyptus trees. Among the pretty coeds were also many in Nurse's Aide uniforms (with 240, the course is the country's biggest), others who clerk in war industries in nearby towns...
...Buzz saw his teaching job, it was a question of preparing youngsters who had never seen death for the task of killing. With little groups of men younger than himself the 25-year-old lieutenant colonel sat under eucalyptus trees and expounded the kill-or-be-killed philosophy which President Roosevelt and Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair were to adopt in their speeches months later. "You've got to get in there and kill the Jap or he'll kill you," said Buzz...
...treatment is a refinement of a method used before World War I but largely neglected since. It consists simply in spraying the burned areas with a melted mixture of paraffin wax, vaseline, cod-liver oil and sulfanilamide (plus traces of camphor, menthol and eucalyptus oil). This wax film is gently washed off the burn with warm water and renewed daily. The burn is not cleaned before spraying, although it may be dusted with sulfa powders; nor is it bandaged afterward. The patient is also given the plasma transfusions and high protein diet common to other forms of burn therapy...