Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sad Case. In Spokane, Wash., Judge Lloyd I. Black heard with interest that a defendant before him was a victim of "plantar callosities bilaterally," inquired further, learned it meant "calluses-both feet."
Further, it looked as if Russia would get Japan's half of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands enclosing Russia's Okhotsk Sea. Russia's position in east Asia would return to about where it was in 1904 before the Russo-Japanese war. Stalin's imperialism...
Henry Pu Yi, just captured by the Russians, had further cause for sadness. The ex-Manchukuo puppet's collection of dolls was all smashed up by a bunch of Jap bullies who looted his palace, the Moscow radio reported.
No world-shaking scientific discovery has yet come out of Soviet Russia. But the visiting scientists noted with surprise that throughout the war Russian scientists, unlike those in the U.S. and Britain, had devoted their main effort to long-range, fundamental research. Langmuir & Co. further discovered that the Russians, through...
They could recall two major incidents: 1) French newspapers once charged that Allied flyers had spared I. G. Farben fac tories (some U.S. papers had also printed it); 2) a sensational yarn that U.S. troops destroyed supplies which French civilians might have used (a story which the French were slow...