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Although he spoke with characteristic flourish, the Prime Minister failed to quell a widespread uneasiness. He had not accounted for the fact that Britain's naval losses at Crete were greater than the Italian losses at Matapan (see p. 32). He had not satisfied many of his listeners that the British High Command was up-to-date as to military brains. And many hearers had found the Prime Minister's thrusts at his critics bitter beyond all reason...
Although it has been used for burns for hundreds of years, tannic acid may do more harm than good. For: 1) it forms a thick, hard crust, under which germs flourish; 2) it kills delicate new skin cells. The British are now turning away from tannic acid, to other methods-among them, the triple dye treatment of Dr. Aldrich...
...despite his clumsiness and lack of flourish as a lover, Lord Nelson's expolits as a sea-officer served to make the Napoleonic wars the most glorious period in British naval history. Each victory in which Nelson took the leading role was won due to his magnificent disregard for the stuffy tradition which had hampered the effectiveness of England's navy for over a century...
...first U.S. entomologists knew nothing about the insect. The beetle is not troublesome in Japan because 1) scarcely a rood of Japanese soil is left untilled for its grubs to flourish in, 2) natural enemies check its increase. So Japanese scientists were able to offer only one fact-that the beetles were attracted to light-and that proved unreliable...
...Artist Randall Davey, was genteelly educated at Lawrenceville and Princeton, spent some five years writing his novel. Good as it is, the story lacks that final intensity that would make it really comparable with Wolfe. William Davey seems the victim of an environment in which intensity does not flourish. Sophistication, a sort of post-collegiate good taste, reduce his work. Or perhaps the publishers cut too much of it away...