Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as construction began again after a wartime halt, ex-President Johnson, now 75, turned up at commencement to make an announcement. He had already given Colby $11,000; now he wanted to give it $96,000 more-adding up to more than his $104,000 salary in 13 years as president. Explained Johnson shyly: "A schoolmaster doesn't earn much money, but I have lived frugally and made some prudent investments. I would be able to give the college more if I hadn't made some imprudent ones...
Streptomycin is slightly toxic (but no more so than the sulfa drugs, which do not halt TB) and makes patients rather dizzy. Though it suppresses the disease, it does not actually kill the germs. Patients who are taken off the drug do not continue to improve, sometimes relapse...
...hitter to blank the Terriers 6 to 0 on Soldiers Field. The story was just about reversed on June 5, when Joe Gathman let the Stahlmen down with 3 hits while his mates pounded the lead up to 8 to 0 before Jupe Pluvious stepped in and called a halt to the contest in the sixth inning...
...whole body, but primarily of its connective tissues - the " 'elastic skeleton' forming the inner and outer lining of the body's organs." His remedy: two or three tiny shots of ACS, which sets off a sort of chain reaction producing protective cells and secretions that halt degeneration...
...could no longer protect them. At another he considered giving himself up to the Japanese-not, he protests, out of disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought he might thus "solidify the opposition of the Filipinos" against the invading Japanese. Finally, to halt the "possibly useless sacrifice" of Filipino life and property, he proposed in February 1942, that both U.S. and Jap forces be withdrawn and the Philippines "neutralized" and declared wholly independent...