Word: phase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leftist officials said this was a Spanish battle of Jutland,* would end Franco's threat to blockade the Loyalist east coast. Jubilantly announced Foreign Minister José Giral Pereira at Barcelona: "The engagement is as important as was the taking of Teruel.† It inaugurates a new phase in the war activities of the navy." The enraged Rightists retaliated by sending out war planes which attacked Cartagena five times, raining bombs on the Government naval base. Leftists denied suffering any serious damage...
Johns Hopkins' Max Brödel considers one of his finest works of art a picture of an unborn child cradled in a pelvis (see cut). Gynecologist Howard Kelly taught Artist Brödel this phase of medical art. Dr. Kelly-just turned 80 and the only survivor of the Four Doctors-attended last week's dinner. It was Dr. Kelly who got Max Brödel to leave his native Leipzig for Baltimore in 1894 to illustrate Kelly's Operative Gynecology. That and other books by Dr. Kelly and Johns Hopkins doctors kept the artist busy...
...administration of the hormone. Drs. Vest & Howard cautiously warned: "It is only a substitution therapy, and certainly in instances of marked hypogonadism [under-functioning of the sex organs] it must be given continuously for sustained effect. . . . These clinical results can be regarded as being entirely in an experimental phase...
...under one top. The result, according to the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue, was not only the biggest circus ever but one of the fanciest conspiracies "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." on record. Last week the circus income tax evasion case, touring one legal phase after another for over five years, pitched its tents in Manhattan as the Government began its prosecution...
Japanese prints are an outstanding phase of Oriental art and have captivated Western imagination for a hundred years. They are the fullest and most characteristic expression ever given to a graphic record of popular Japanese life...