Word: offs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head Up, Chin Up. Last week, when Shirley May finally took the plunge, she had missed the good weather. She also missed most of the newsmen. On their way over from England, they were far out in mid-Channel at take-off time aboard a picturesque but snail-slow two...
Among the viruses (which cause such familiar diseases as measles, chickenpox, colds, influenza and mumps) are many which prove more damaging to a healthy body. Sick chickens are more resistant to cancer than healthy ones. Undernourished guinea pigs are better able to ward off foot-and-mouth disease.
Last week Scottie was scratching away at his drawings full-time in a cheap rented room in the Kilburn district of London. Despite his vogue with London's intelligentsia, his tastes were still simple, his prices low (?5 to ?15 a picture). Some days he worked over his board...
In Illinois, where the Old Northwest Territory Art Exhibit competition drew off professional work and left the amateurs a show to themselves, Amateur Verne Alkire walked away with three prizes. But her conventional paintings of boats in a harbor, gladiolas, and a nursery, daubed between kitchen and barnyard duties, were...
Jet Steering. These chores took a long time, while the tension grew. At X minus 30 minutes, a cascade of white smoke billowed out of a vent near the nose of the rocket, showing that the tanks were full. "This is a marginal firing," warned an Army major. "If it...