Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like oil and water, exams and Varsity sports don't mix, and Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity squash racquets team has been having a tough time over the last two weeks, what with the all-important Yale match a week and a half away. To make matters even worse, Captain and number one man. Gaelen Felt has silently folded his tent and gone into the Army...
...Brazil reporters soon learned what Commander Winchell's orders were: cannon-voiced Vice Admiral Jonas Ingram had assigned him to mix with Brazilians, get to know something about them and their country, find out what they think about the U.S., then report to the U.S. via the Navy and State Departments. Since Brazilians had begun to think that they had heard much more about the U.S. than the U.S. had heard about them, the job seemed worth while...
...some of the reasons for the butter famine the homemakers were generally aware: labor shortages on farms (TIME, Nov. 23), transportation difficulties, mix-ups in the entire milk economy. The same thing had been true of sugar, meat, coffee, cheese; the same would be true, they could be sure, of a coming succession of canned, frozen and processed foodstuffs of almost all varieties...
...vitamin C: intravenous injection of one gram in solution for shock (another instance when blood histamine is high); in wound healing; for insomnia; in treating industrial workers exposed to toxic dusts. If people taking vitamin C by mouth are troubled by its acid reaction, he advises them to mix a little bicarbonate of soda with...
...12th Air Force blasted Axis fields, crippling Axis fighter operations by bombing their nests. From Libya and from the island of Malta came other Allied bombers. Fighter bases were improvised in the rear of the rolling First Army, and from these, in swelling numbers, Spitfires rose to mix with swooping Axis dive-bombers...