Word: linked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lordship (a Roman Catholic) was in Canada on wartime business for the Knights of Columbus. Looking at Nova Scotia had given him his great idea. He would purchase a chunk of provincial acreage, after war's end transplant Scots from his own bleak estate. A new link between old and new Scotland would be forged, his hereditary holdings would in a sense be reclaimed, everyone would be happy...
That credo is hard to link to any coherent political philosophy. Its main focus is on that maze of human emotions that is known to theoreticians as the race problem. It combines practical common-sense proposals for bettering race relations (which intelligent Southerners do anyway) with doctrinaire opinions on what is wrong with Southerners (and what they should do about it) that irritate most Southerners...
...Britain admitted the right of the De Gaulle regime to act with authority not only for the French Empire but for the homeland. Military necessity made the admission inevitable. As leader of the second-greatest colonial empire, holder of vital bases, wielder of an army of 400,000 and link to Europe's biggest resistance group, the Algiers government had to play a key part in the coming Allied invasion. Plans were well advanced. The Committee would send an army into France, pay for relief supplies, devise a currency, probably administer liberated territory until elections can be held...
...Link and co-workers went on to get Dicumarol in pure form and then to synthesize it. They found that in the body it makes salicylic acid. Another anticoagulant, heparin, was already on the market. It is also used to keep donors' blood fluid until it can be processed. But it is an expensive extract of ox lung and liver, must be given by injection, and is hard to control. Therefore surgeons (who worry lest a fatal clot undo their work) took up Dicumarol...
...patient taking Dicumarol need not fear that he will bleed to death. Dr. Link explained that it can be counteracted by 1) a small transfusion, 2) a large dose (an injection) of vitamin K, the antihemorrhagic vitamin in leafy vegetables...