Word: interrupt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequent-a survey of sulfas taken internally shows that some toxic reaction occurred in 29.8% of sulfapyridine cases, 11.8% of sulfathiazole and 7.7% of sulfadiazine. Most of these reactions are not dangerous, merely a nuisance (e.g., nausea, vomiting, dizziness, mild anemia, lack of appetite, tingling sensation), and do not interrupt treatment. But some rare reactions may prove fatal unless caught early. Even the less toxic sulfa derivatives can cause trouble: three cases at Johns Hopkins Hospital suffered not only kidney damage but brain injury from sulfathiazole; two majors in the Army Medical Corps last winter stated that seven...
...interrupt the steady flow of entrants to the [training] schools in March 1943, the effect of this break will be produced a year later and then, if it proves a mistake, cannot be corrected for another year. ... I hope and pray that it will not require tragic disaster to bring our people to a realization of the facts...
Round-the-clock preoccupation with Cologne (submarine engines and parts), Wilhelmshaven, St. Nazaire and Brest (U-boat bases) bore out reports that one major Casablanca decision was to interrupt or abandon indiscriminate bombing of industrial targets. The chosen alternative: concentrate on submarine building centers and ports, thus easing the U-boat strain from United Nations supply lines...
...privilege of escorting them to their tables. They performed in the rain, in halls lit only by torches; once, in a boxing ring. When they lacked a musician, a soldier rapped on a table to keep time for Mitzi's dance. Often under fire, the girls had to interrupt their show one night and lie in a slit trench with a company of soldiers. When the raid ended, they powdered their noses and went on with the show...
...should spend his spare time. Harvard has assumed that its students are adults, and so far the assumption has stood the test fairly well. Although most cocktail lounges have been disrupted in these crowded days relaxation has not been outlawed And Phillips Brooks House has not let the war interrupt its Harvard-Radcliffe teas. Football games and post-game dances have not been cancelled. The Houses, into which Freshmen are moved for the first time this year, have arranged for men of '46 to meet and to cement some sort of class solidarity...