Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same as a curriculum for men. But most girls work for a while, then get married and have children. There is need for improvement in education for the days before marriage, and also for preparing for the life of the postgraduate mother-when the children have grown up and left...
...bronchitis, malarial fever, and a lung abscess caused by the bullet. But he had almost everything else: bronchiectasis (inflamed and dilated bronchial tubes), stomach, kidney and eye trouble; in later years, "cholera morbus" (widespread intestinal inflammation) and dropsy. From another duel he had an open wound in his left arm; doctors wanted to amputate, but he refused and trusted in a poultice of slippery elm (still used in lozenges for sore throat). He kept the arm, but later developed osteomyelitis (stubborn infection of the bone). The infections from the bullets, Diagnostician Gardner thinks, brought on amyloidosis (a waxy degeneration...
...bullied and wheedled into going over from Vichy to the Allies, kept the allegiance of most of the troops. After Darlan's assassination, Giraud was briefly the No. 1 French commander in North Africa. Then General de Gaulle replaced him and Henri Giraud was finally left with nothing but a second-rate post and a grandiose title: Inspector General of the French Armed Forces...
...which the American Junior Aircraft Co. of Portland, Ore. displayed at the 46th annual American Toy Fair. It carried a tone transmitter (see cut) which controls the steering of a glider airplane by sonic vibrations. A steady sound tone makes it fly straight, interruptions turn it alternately right and left (price: $25). The 10,000 U.S. retail buyers attending the toy fair did so much early Christmas shopping that the Toy Manufacturers of the U.S.A. reported that 1949's business would be just as good, if not better, than last year's estimated $400 million...
...seers packed up their charts and headed for home, only one question was left unanswered: Where is the stock market going...