Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grains of bichloride of mercury. One grain is usually enough to kill. Taken in solution, the tablets painfully sear the mouth and throat. Swallowed whole, they may cause no pain for 30 or 40 minutes, or twice that time if the victim's stomach is full. Then follow abdominal cramps, vomiting, frequent bowel movements. Soon the poison seeps to the kidneys, stops the flow of urine. Pain varies with the dose and individual but is usually not agonizing. Victims fall into a coma, die within...
...Neither last year nor the year before," continued the Chancellor, "did I make any provision for payment of the War debts to America nor for the receipt of War debts or reparations by ourselves. In the absence of any fresh development, I propose to follow precisely the same course this year...
...satisfied with the anti-Fascist riots and the "Massacre of Salacos," Greek newspapers last week had an even more startling story to follow it. The Greek Orthodox Church has in its guardianship the third of three temples of which all Christendom is jealous: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and the Monastery of St. John in Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese Islands.* On Patmos John is supposed to have hidden in a cave and received the vision of the Apocalypse (''The Book of Revelation''). The monastery...
Vannay: "Whatever reduction in weight may follow the use of Vannay is due to one or both of two factors: First, the laxative action and, second, the requirement - common to practically every obesity-cure nostrum on the market-that the victim, in taking it, should diet...
...aims of the present administration. The master's degree from Harvard must represent the same high intellectual achievement, and carry the same prestige in the academic world as do Harvard's A.B. and Ph.D. The government department has pointed the way, and other departments would do well to follow...