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...that test, the Berlin crisis had not brought war any nearer, in spite of the the heart-in-mouth atmosphere which prevailed at week's end in Washington, Paris, London and Berlin. The Russians also knew that the West was stronger and hoped that the West's advantage would diminish. If & when it diminished, Russia would have a better chance...
...injunction presumably would apply until the railway wage dispute has been settled. It was no nearer settlement last week than it was eight weeks ago, when Judge Goldsborough issued his temporary order and the Army took over nominal operation of the roads. The engineers, firemen and switchmen still wanted more than double the 15½?-an-hour raise which a fact-finding board had recommended as a fair settlement. Their demands were louder than ever now because, they said, even while they had been arguing, the cost of living had gone up. The conductors and trainmen, who had accepted...
...flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although she did get to one nearer home, in Pittsfield, Mass...
...reach. As the match went on, he glared at linesmen when they flubbed decisions and took kicks at the ball when he missed easy shots. He fell a great many times and got up very slowly. London's Daily Telegraph tried to be charitable: "Should we not be nearer the truth in regarding his behavior more in the light of an overgrown schoolboy than as a schemer trying to steal a rest...
Last week, doctors searching for a safe and effective anesthetic seemed nearer their goal. The new technique, gradually improved over the last several years, is a variation of spinal anesthesia (first used for general surgery at the turn of the century). Doctors describe it, in a jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy nupercaine to produce saddle-block anesthesia." Nupercaine is a cocaine substitute. "Heavy" means that it is loaded with a glucose (sugar) solution to make it heavier than the body's spinal fluid. "Saddle block" aptly describes the area anesthetized (the inner thigh and perineum...