Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Added one of his more loquacious roommates, "The girls throw their arms around him and flash bulbs exploded in his face...
Overall conclusions: 1) penicillin is no cureall, but neither is it a flash in the pan; 2) penicillin's occasional failures have been due mainly to improper use.* The Fleming book is also a detailed guide to practitioners on how & when to use the drug. Items...
...schools at all for 14,000 out of 20,000 school-age Navajos. But the nomadic Navajos were also at fault: they took their children with them to tend sheep flocks. To round up students from a 50-mile radius, the day schools depended on buses. But poor roads, flash floods and wartime breakdowns held up the buses. Of 50 schools, 20 were closed during World War II. Chee says: "The schools tasted good. We want more...
Chinese officials winced under the storm, complained that the Americans just did not understand China. Wrote Shih Shih Hsin Pao, former Finance Minister H. H. Kung's own paper, in a painful flash of introspection...
Some 180,000 Hiroshimans still reckoned all time as before & after pika-don (flash-bang), but the city was slowly shuffling back to life and growth. Directly under the spot where the bomb had burst eleven months ago, a small vegetable garden flourished. The people were clearing paths through the desert of debris (it would take years to remove all) and building temporary camps of wood and rusty tin. In an effort to hide the naked desolation, the city administration issued free seedlings of wildflowers. The Reconstruction Deliberation Committee, with Rotarian zeal, dreamed of making a tourist center of Hiroshima...