Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cottage on the outskirts of Oslo, Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of Norway's Lutheran Church, last week passed the first anniversary of his arrest. The four-room house, fenced by barbed wire, is constantly patrolled by eleven Quisling storm troopers. The guard is frequently changed lest the men get on friendly terms with their prisoner, for Bishop Berggrav in confinement is as strong a moral force as all the churchmen at liberty in the land...
Four months was a long time to be at sea ... in an ocean of S & A Manuals and Memos, Navy Regs and Travel Instructions. And the waves of examinations and publication changes made the passage a rough one at times. But lest we forget, those week-end leaves were mighty enjoyable ... and as we will no doubt learn, there are far worse ports-of-call than Boston and its environs...
...Lest all this seem as if the Episcopal Church were flinging the door wide to the divorced, the other canon provided that brides and grooms would be required to sign a pledge: "We, A.B. and C.D. . . . do solemnly declare that we hold marriage to be a lifelong union ... for the advancement of the Kingdom...
Malaria is fought by fighting mosquitoes or by interrupting the plasmodia life-cycle at some point. Men use old-fashioned mosquito nets, oil on mosquito-breeding water, citronella to keep from getting the dangerous mosquito bites. In some parts of India the U.S. Army does not employ native labor lest the mosquitoes pick up plasmodia from their blood. Antimalarial chemicals can kill sexual forms of the protozoa in a patient's blood, prevent a mosquito from carrying his infection to others. No known chemical kills plasmodia in the form mosquitoes deliver to man. Chemicals can get them after they...
...Atabrine, a drug developed in Germany, does what quinine does and with smaller dosage. But its action is slower, it is a little more toxic and is excreted so slowly that doctors have to take care lest it accumulate in the body and do harm. Like quinine, it does not kill sexual forms of malignant tertian malaria. There is plenty of atabrine...