Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dolicocephalic aborigines are becoming rather rare in many hill regions of the Tapalog Island. Famed for their pomegranate trees and the extract of pome-rang juice which is the main staple of the race, they are herb-carnivorous bipeds...
...Greece is a true hell. The Greeks are the recipients not of cruel beatings, but of a finesse in occupation tactics. The German system is slow, sure, and unimaginable. In Athens a good menu would consist of a breakfast of herb tea and a Melba-size slice of dry bread; luncheon would be weeds from the garden, cooked in a few drops of oil, if one were lucky enough to get oil, and another thin piece of dry bread; and finally, dinner would be vegetable soup, thickened with a teaspoonful of wheat flour, and for dessert...
...first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing can restore the blotches to their original color...
...showing made by Tom "T. T." White, who has been a reliable winner all year, and Bob Chase, was expected, but John Shattuck's fourth in the shot was a pleasant surprise. Joe Kane, of Penn, and Herb Hobler of Princeton, who were supposed to take over the Javelin throwing, were both absent, so "Herky" Herskovits and Bob Chase stepped in to pick up four invaluable points for the home forces...
...Crimson boat lines up with Gene Wulsin stroke, Herb Church, 7; Hugh Manning, 6; Captain John Carpenter, 5; Chub Peabody, 4; Soup Campbell, 3; Joe Grant, 2; Charlie Putnam, bow; and Johnny Strauss...