Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British were denounced for enslaving India. But, as if taking it all back, the Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet on a British arm bleeding from wounds labeled "Nazi Fleet Escape" and "Singapore." Another cartoon pictured Uncle Sam with a gas mask labeled "Unity" while poison gas labeled "Distrust in Our Allies" swirls up from a cesspool marked "Berlin and Tokio...
...receiving end of the twirler's efforts have been catchers Dave Hodgson and Bill Hamlen. Hodgson has been active since the beginning of practice, but Hamlen was a latecomer, and in the last two weeks has been pressing the Milton Academy star for the mask...
...somber mien was a mask that broke awrinkle in a quick smile. His facile, orderly discussion of military flying impressed them. Smooth and suave, he clinched their approval when they first heard his rather rare but richly accented and discriminating profanity illuminate a point...
...geraniums and is a blistering gas, the blisters appear about 15 minutes after the dark brown liquid has touched the victim. If the blisters are broken immediately, the arsenic will not be so likely to seep through the system, and will not do so much harm." The ordinary gas mask, which may be distributed to all civilians, eliminates the gas with ease, but no ordinary clothing will protect the wearer. Oil cloth or especially treated cloth will keep the gas from the body," Major Johnson said...
Last week, after 19 years of baseball, during which he tried to conceal his intellectual background, Catcher Berg at last removed his mask. Quitting the game he loved even more than his books, Morris Berg, A.B., LL.D, accepted a Government appointment as roving envoy to Mexico and Central America-a good-will post created by the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations between the American Republics...