Word: hazardous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's spindling Army commander, Lieut. General Arthur Ernest Percival, mindful of the hazard of trying to defend southern Johore with no avenue of escape but the Causeway, had decided to run for it, to get across the Causeway before Japanese bombers blew...
...gasoline. Patients were sprayed with mixtures of Hydrosulphosol and water every 20 or 30 minutes until a tough "eschar," or "scab" was built up. The eschar is flexible, leaves room for motion, reduces scars to a minimum. Hydrosulphosol, said Dr. Mellon, not only relieves pain, but prevents infection, great hazard in burn cases...
...Hazard. In South Bend, Wash., the local game protector reported elk were crowding the highways, bumming cigarets from autoists. He explained the elk were not smokers, but chawers...
Pioneers on Puget Sound ate so many clams "their stomachs rose and fell with the tides." They were great individualists. There was Hazard Stevens, son of the first Governor. At twelve he left home to make a treaty with the Gros Ventre Indians. He was the first white man to climb Mount Rainier...
...newly elected Seniors on the committee are Benjamin M. Hazard, Literature; Wilfred M. Kluss, Psychology; and Jack M. Peterson, Physics...