Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along with all this there was: "You must believe me if I tell you that the thesis of a long war weakening a nation is not true. With every year we will grow stronger...
...France's Bureau des Informations. But the main French policy has long been known: "The brutal propaganda of the Axis powers has not always been favorable to their reputations. . . . We will not stoop to the showy advertising to which our rivals have resorted. . . . The propaganda of France must be of an informative character...
...bullet, the bullet does not always go into or through him in a straight track, even when the holes where the bullet came in and 'went out are in a straight line. A sharp-nosed bullet is easily deflected by ribs or tough muscles. A surgeon must explore the internal track of all penetrating bullets, no matter how tiny the entering wounds may seem. If he meets an abdominal wound, for instance, he must first cut off all jagged infected surface tissue. Without damaging important nerves, veins, arteries, he must then pull out the intestines "foot by foot," looking...
Burns. Standard treatment for burns, whether caused by incendiary bombs, mustard gas or lewisite, is application of tannic-acid dressings. Where tannic acid is not available, strong, lukewarm tea is a good substitute. Tannic-acid compresses must be left undisturbed for two or three weeks, until new skin forms. Victims of mustard gas must have their clothes carefully removed, must be "decontaminated" with soap, clean water and sodium bicarbonate, rubbed with a paste of bleaching powder and water, successful antidote for the oily gas. Then routine tannic-acid treatment follows. Mustard gas can remain on the skin for ten minutes...
...that point University of Minnesota's General College begins. Flunks worry General College because they are so numerous: half of all U. S. undergraduates flunk out of college. General College believes that, if this large group cannot become competent doctors, lawyers or engineers, at least they must be made competent citizens. After seven years the college is still seeking a formula for turning out good citizens,* but last week it reported progress: it had determined by a prodigious piece of research what a college graduate and good citizen needs to know...