Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government survey showed that 91% of British women wear corsets or abdominal belts-or at least would like to. Wartime "utility" garments made of low-priority materials are a painful failure. One result: a "shocking" number of women prefer to use their coupons for outer clothing, wear no underclothes and sleep raw. Some individual comments on the wartime garments...
Modified to pack a 75-mm., the B-25 has a sinister look. There is no plexiglass in the nose, only a smooth metal face with one angry, flaring nostril, from which the gun muzzle protrudes. The gun is mounted low on the left, fired by the pilot at the right. It is fixed, aimed by pointing the plane. The 20-lb. shells are loaded manually...
...also knows that his election took place in a convention not free from ill will. Dissatisfaction arose when the nominating committee, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, picked four candidates, all of them liberals, all graduates of Dr. Dun's Cambridge school. Both high and low church groups resented the committee's failure to put any but broad-church candidates on the slate. One group, which favored New York City's young Dr. C. Avery Mason, charged that their candidate was a victim of politics in the best Washington style. Mason ran second...
When special cases in Baltimore hospitals began getting propethylene, its advantages became clear:1) though it has an etherish smell, patients rarely fight when going under; 2) it is safer to give than ether (less need be given; concentration is low in a patient's blood); 3) in warm weather (and climates) the effect lasts longer than ether's; 4) it does not evaporate as readily as ether, which makes it advantageous for use in the tropics...
Died. Carlo Cardinal Cremonesi, 77, the Pope's longtime secret almoner, whose death reduced the College of Cardinals to a longtime low of 43 members; of a heart attack; in Rome...