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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...
...Today Switzerland is just one big factory working day and night for the Germans." (Until France fell the Swiss worked almost exclusively for the Allies, now have to sell to German markets lest the Nazis withhold vital coal supplies. Even so, Switzerland still trades with the U.S., has 14 Swiss ships plying the Atlantic...
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...