Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more Pacific fighting than gnomish, taut "Pete" Mitscher. He had commanded the Hornet, from which Jimmy Doolittle launched his B-25s to bomb Tokyo in early 1942. He had fought through the Solomons. For over a year he commanded Task Force 58, spreading destruction from the Ryukyus to New Guinea. In one nine-month period it sank 88 warships, 282 merchant ships, and destroyed 4,425 planes...
...backward to avoid taking advantage of it. Then, says Jennie Lee, "we said 'the hell with it'; anything we got by our own efforts we'd print, and that's what we do now." Now that they are breaking even, they pay their contributors a guinea a column. Says one editor: "It varies only for our really distinguished ones, who are allowed (as H. G. Wells and G. B. Shaw were) to write for nothing...
...still looks like the most promising foe of tuberculosis, but Dr. Alfred Marshak of the U.S. Public Health Service found another likely-looking one: a yellow crystal extracted from California Spanish moss (not to be confused with the lacy Spanish moss that hangs from trees). It checks T.B. in guinea pigs, has still to be tested...
...volcanoes) has also hit the shores of the Pacific: Peru, the Aleutians, Japan. Hasty guessers have therefore concluded that a wave of seismic shakes is burrowing molelike, and counterclockwise, around the Pacific. Having passed the Philippines, quivers and brimstone ought to strike the East Indies next, then the New Guinea region, then New Zealand, and back to Chile and Peru...
...proof, Wegener pointed to a map. If the drifting continents were pushed together again, they would fit rather neatly. The bulge of Brazil would poke into the Gulf of Guinea. Eastern Canada would fit roughly against Scotland. Spain would snuggle into the Caribbean...