Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be unfortunate for the public to get the idea that any one of these agents is of major importance in causing cancer, as present scientific knowledge does not bear this...
...Begin monthly old-age insurance payments in 1940 instead of 1942. This would help already insured oldsters who now get nothing but lump-sum settlements of their claims, totaling only $12,000,000 since...
Between Brooklyn, N. Y. and Honolulu, Hawaii, lie some 5.500 miles of land and sea. All that Ben Fleigelmann of Brooklyn thought he had to do to make that trip was join the U. S. Army Air Corps and get assigned to Luke Field, Hawaii. In a high moment last November, Mechanic Fleigelmann decided to fly back 2,400 miles to San Francisco in a Douglas B18 bomber, which can fly 2,000 miles with a full load and the usual crew of six experienced men. Inasmuch as Private Fleigelmann was not even one experienced flier, he was lucky...
...emergence of foreign policy as a burning national concern. On this Robert Rice Reynolds considers himself an expert because he has toured the world extensively (efficiently sending postcards to his voters). His ambition to get on the Foreign Relations Committee was great enough so that South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, by fixing it, lured his vote away from the Administration's higher figure...
...fierce, misshapen reptile--possibly a Dodatmor throwback--slithers up to the window and stares maliciously at Vag with evil eyes. He opens his well-toothed jaws and measures the distance to Vag's head. There is a metallic crash as teeth meet the iron skull. Vicious fool, you cannot get Vag. See, Vag does not even blink. This is mere phantasmagoria compared to The Four encountered on The Bottom. They were truly fearsome, especially to one numbed with the icy breath of the Great Fear, one who cannot fight back. The Four had come at him--zing, zing, zing, zing...