Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the turn of the century, however, all ventures outside the bounds of the U.S. had acquired a bad name. By 1939 the imperialism ("Manifest Destiny") of 1898 had been long regarded as a pain in the bowels and conscience of the U.S. The timid internationalism of World War I was a spinster memory, pressed like a dead flower between the forlorn pages of the League of Nations...
...ever learned the elements of electronics are being made into radio men, and even American amateurs have been asked to volunteer. This situation made an impression on President Conant, in England, who asked the Physics Department if at least one introductory course could teach enough electronics to case the pain when war comes. Physics C was elected. This fall enough streamlined mechanics and electricity will be crammed into the first seven weeks to permit an immediate start on radio in the eighth week. The instructors have not yet decided where the course will be at midyears, but they intend...
...year-old boy "extremely ill" with staphylococcus poisoning of the leg developed a kidney infection. Sulfathiazole did little good. Penicillin relieved his pain, cleared up the infection in a month...
...French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion. "A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him. The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh. Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And no one knew where he was going...
...when Celestial Messenger No. 7013 (Edward Everett Horton) returns to heaven with the soul of a prize fighter (Robert Montgomery) snatched from his private plane before it crashed to earth in "a place called New Jersey." No. 7013, a green and sentimental hand, wanted to spare the fighter the pain of crashing. But The Book says that the fighter is scheduled to live for 50 more years, meantime becoming world's heavyweight champion. He would have survived the crash; he must be returned to his earthly body...