Word: onset
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liverpool and Hull, as the seaward ventricle and auricle of the region, are prime targets of Britain's midsection. York, Derby, Peterborough, Spalding, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Chester are especially vulnerable railroad junctions. Great Grimsby on the Humber, normally a fishing port, became with the onset of war the home of a minesweeping fleet and a big oil depot. (Near it stands the radio station to Australia.) Leeds is the centre of Britain's meat (and leather) industry. At York is the G. H. Q. of the British Army's northern command...
...Italy is really going to fight Great Britain for supremacy in Africa, she must launch an overland campaign to take Alexandria. Main base for this attack must be Libya, where, since Air Marshal Italo Balbo's death,* fire-eating Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has been getting ready. (Onset of the rainy season in Ethiopia had slowed up preparations for a supplementary attack northward up the Nile tributaries from the Sudan border...
...this warfare of the mind, Edmond Taylor's book is a lucid, cool and informative study. As Paris correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, Taylor watched the onset of Nazi psychological warfare, analyzed its effects on the French Government and people, learned what forms it took...
...nose, said Dr. Cone, are far more effective than ordinary gauze packs. "In many instances," he continued, "salt pork promptly stopped bleeding after other methods had failed. ... It seems to have the property of preventing recurrence. ... I have used it in controlling violent hemorrhage occurring with the onset of measles, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever, and during the third stage of labor...
...forces of conservatism. Mr. Grundy, 77, still rosy of cheek and twinkly of eye behind round gold-rimmed spectacles, with his round, white-fringed face, round little body, is a combination of Pickwick and Foxy Grandpa. Last week Mr. Grundy was resting in Florida, but with the full onset of spring he is expected back soon in the once-beautiful riverfront village which industrialism has made into an ugly mill town...