Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strongest areas lie on the flanks. From Sedjenane to Djebel el Ang on the northeast, and from Enfidaville to Djebel Sefsouf on the southwest (see map), the mountain chains are steep, and provide a natural defense in depth. But in the center there are two areas where the fortress walls are weak. These are the broad valleys of Tunisia's two main rivers: the Medjerda and the Miliana...
Schrödinger is a mathematical mystic. Says he: "There is no worldly truth but mathematical truth. In politics, history and diplomacy, truth changes from day to day and people get different concepts of right. But mathematics never lie...
...Furs. "The doctors made their rounds in fur overcoats covered by white gowns. . . . The wounded often had to lie in bed fully dressed. [I] frequently had to do blood transfusions in a fur coat and a fur hat and keep [my] hands warm by putting them in warm water." Operating rooms in most hospitals were too cold to use and work on wounds had to be done in the wards...
Britain and the U.S. The success or failure of any such plan would lie in basic economic and political world conditions. The condition of Britain after the war will be of critical importance. Britain bore the economic brunt of armament long before the U.S. Before the passage of Lend-Lease, England saw her gold stocks reduced from $2 billion to $152 million. Foreign investments and other assets were reduced from about $15 billion to about $10 billion. Much of her merchant fleet has been destroyed. She has been building up an increasing indebtedness, chiefly in short-term balances, with such...
When a sulfa drug comes along, some ordinarily susceptible bacteria do not just lie down and take it. Some of them develop such resistance that they can even multiply in the presence of the enemy. Up to now, laboratory workers have been unable to prove how a resistant strain differs from a susceptible one of the same species. They look alike, grow alike, form the same kind of colonies...