Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Competitors for positions on the news board gain practical experience in writing and summarizing effectively. They learn to judge what is news and what is not, what is important and what should be discarded. A member of the SERVICE NEWS will regard this part of his college career as one of the most valuable, interesting, and enjoyable to remember...
Pseudopregnancy is fairly common among women, especially those very anxious to have children. Usually the abdominal swelling is steady and accompanied by a gain in weight. Sometimes women have a spasmodic abdominal distention. The soldier's swelling was of the latter type. "On Feb. 13 he had received a letter from home at 8 a.m., and his abdominal distention resulted at 11 a.m. the same day." He had another attack when he was refused permission to go home for his wife's confinement. "The circumference of the abdomen was 41 inches." By using narcotics and suggestion, the doctors...
...clear gain for the Allies is the speedy but largely untried Italian fleet. Some 100 interned war vessels will now be available for patrol duty, if fuel can be supplied. Reportedly royalist to the core, the Italian Navy would probably be kept in the Mediterranean. But at least the ships would release U.S. and British units for service elsewhere...
...Japs have never believed in seeking out the enemy fleet for decisive battle. The mission of their navy has not been to gain "command of the seas" but to transport troops and protect the Imperial Army's supply lines. Mr. Kiralfy suggests that this goes back to Japan's origins, the Japs being a nation of "island-hoppers" who surged up from the south and established "beachheads" on what is now called Japan. In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads. In 1904-05, Togo aimed...
...when Worcester had the ball, almost all the progress was made on Hugo Norige's bucks, which did the whole job on the second touchdown. In fact, an end run by Charlie Schmit was the only other appreciable gain from scrimmage made by the Engineers. This Schmit boy is the one who went 72 yards on a punt return for the first touch down on one of the prettiest displays of open-field running and blocking to be seen in the Stadium in recent years...