Word: fends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspondents, still clings to his Ottoman fez and grey-green World War uniform. In his charge was one of Ethiopia's prides, a fleet of 20 U. S. motor trucks used to transport black troopers across the desert to rivers and water holes that they must soon de fend. Neither mud nor water could stop them. At a river bank 100 blacks lifted each truck to their sturdy shoulders and waded across...
...giant towers had been built to flank the big revolving stage, flood it with light, support an over-head bridge which provides more lights and potent amplifiers. In the background were the majestic twin oaks, so valued sentimentally that they-are heavily insured and dosed with castor oil to fend off old-age sickness...
...called physiologic apathy, somnolence and stupor in the newborn secondary to birth shock and the compensated acidosis universally present. ... All of the infants began to gain weight on the fifth day of life at a rate which far exceeded that of the babies who were left to fend for themselves...
...touring next season (TIME, June 19). St. Louis concentrates on light opera during the summer and usually makes it pay. In Forest Park, St. Louis has the biggest revolving stage in the U. S., built between majestic twin oaks which are heavily insured and dosed with castor oil to fend off sickness. There the Municipal ("Muny") Opera Company broke all attendance records lately with Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet (62,000 heard it in a week). Floradora, musty relic of the nineties, ran close second. Last week at the Muny Opera Rip Van Winkle was put on with Robert...
...Garner deal and put the New Deal in the White House? Controlled inflation, the policy of the hour-whose policy is it, if not his? And looking out upon the Pacific he may sometimes see the smoke of a fleet which he has always urged must be ready to fend off the Yellow Peril...