Word: forming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drugs on himself before giving them to his patients. One night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound and he had trouble getting his breath...
...allocated $26 million to Western European nations to buy aluminum. They had been using the dollars to buy Canadian ingots at 16? a lb. This gave the Europeans a surplus of aluminum. They shipped the metal to the U.S.-where there is a shortage-in the form of scrap. U.S. fabricators were paying as high as 25? a lb. for their European scrap...
...first quarter resolved into nothing more than a foul shooting contest with neither side getting the edge, and the half ended in a 20 to 20 tie. The game held true to early-season form all the way, with Brown committing 26 personal fouls and the Crimson...
Although they had known each other a year and a half they became secretly engaged only two weeks ago. The announcement of their marriage took HTW officials by surprise this weekend. It is uncertain whether the couple will return form their honeymoon in time to assume their roles in the play. Peter Temple, director of the play, is now scorching for someone to learn the role of Helen before Wednesday night's opening performance...
Maybe MGM was only fooling, and really trying to prove that super-swashbuckling is a superb form of screen humor. And yet there are some dreadful little moments, when the actors suddenly become deadpan, straining to get a dull point across. But these scenes are few, and fairly short. When they intrude, just think back a piece and remember D'Artagnan as he points his poinard to the sky and shouts "All for one!" and his comrades raise their rapiers and reply...