Word: hospitaler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> "Please remember St. Dunstan's [hospital for blinded soldiers] in your will."
Hospital trains began to arrive in Berlin and Hitler Youths were given first-aid training. But no casualty lists were published. Stories of glorious victories over the Poles gave the people something to be happy about. Secure in its belief that the defeat of Poland would be followed by peace...
Military surgeons work by one rule of thumb: patch up and move on. At frontline dressing stations neither time nor sentiment is wasted on the hopelessly injured. A seriously wounded man has to survive the long stretcher trip through collecting station, hospital station, evacuation hospital to base hospital, some 30...
> All British race meetings for 1939 were scratched, including next month's Cesarewitch Stakes, basis of the third and last of this year's Irish Hospital Sweepstakes -for which some $10,000,000 has already been pooled. Ticket holders, however, will still get a run for their money...
Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his Andr...