Word: fine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Klondike Gold Rush lawyer named Key Pittman was primarily responsible. Nevada's Pittman, a tall slender gentleman with a discriminating tongue for fine old whiskey and a talent for bumming cigarets from reporters, has one prime faculty-an ability to keep his mind's eye focused on the ice-cold political realities...
...Higher and Higher!" It was no fun for A. Hitler to watch the "Berchtesgaden technique" of bluff & bludgeon being successfully used on Estonia last week by Russia. Germans have always hoped to dominate the Baltic. As long as 20 years ago German General Staff officers had perfected a fine set of plans for invading Russia with a thrust through Estonia to seize Leningrad. The Führer may or may not have realized before what his chumming up with the Bolsheviks might cost him in the Baltic sphere, as well as in the Balkans, but he saw every reason...
...Munters to do but hustle to Moscow this week with a delegation empowered to sign. This obviously cut two ways: on the one hand Russia has taken efficient measures to exclude the Germans from Estonia and Latvia; on the other hand the Soviet Union has obtained the use of fine, ice-free Estonian and Latvian harbors through which Russian supplies could be routed to Germany after Leningrad freezes up late this month...
...ground of self-preservation" and as a matter of "duty" all Nazi commanders were ordered to attack Allied ships without warning. First ship to feel such a stab was the neutral Danish freighter Vendia (bound for Scotland empty to get a cargo of coal which would have made a fine prize had the U-boat waited). Eleven men were killed, six taken ashore by another Danish ship after the submarine had rescued them. Danes were furious. Aside from the coldbloodedness of this attack, it followed on the heels of Germany's seizure of four Danish ships, three carrying butter...
...maximum surgical success, hundreds of delicate precautions must be observed. A surgeon should make incisions with "a deliberate sweep of the scalpel." but "the belly of the scalpel should be swept across the tissues, not pressed into them." Sutures should be of silk "so fine that it - breaks when such strain is put upon it as will cut through living tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know...