Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormous mass of tropical air drifted up the Mississippi Valley-like a soldering iron being run slowly up a dowager's spine. While chickens fell dead and pavements shimmered like cookstoves, the hot air spread east and west. Soon it was hot from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. And it stayed hot-hot as Zamboanga in mango-picking time...
...trim little Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Mass, was fairly bursting with sculptured emotion last week. Some figures wept, some prayed, some chewed their nails. Another sat on a pedestal and seemed to scream...
...important. For the first time, a laboratory has produced from commonly occurring bacteria a substance with anemia-treating properties, and pernicious anemia patients are freed from the ups & downs of the meat market. Liver extract, obtained from cow livers, varies in quality. The new product will eventually be mass-produced and comparatively cheap. The animal protein factor has proved that it clears up the blood damage in pernicious anemia. Still to be answered: does it repair the nerve damage that is frequently part of the disease...
...rained. With admirable restraint, nobody wrote that "Even the skies wept for the Babe"-except the New York Times's Sport Columnist Arthur Daley, who passed off the remark on a defenseless taxi driver. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at a Requiem Mass (attended by 6,000), with Governor Dewey, New York's Mayor O'Dwyer and Boston's Mayor Curley as pallbearers. The press reported that 75,000 people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday. The Daily News headlined: RUTH'S LAST...
...fleet of British warships anchored off the mouth of the Rufiji River in German East Africa and proceeded to bombard an unseen target. When the shelling was over, the 3,400-ton cruiser Königsberg, camouflaged and in hiding 17 miles upstream, was an unrecognizable mass of twisted steel. She was to Germany in World War I what the Bismarck was in World War II: a ghostly, arrogant lone raider that had sunk British warships, transports and merchant vessels and gotten cleanly away after each kill. On the bridge of the British admiral's flagship that day stood...