Word: pilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before every entrance of the old and respected Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury--American-owned and just across the street from the International Settlement--stand armored cars, pill-boxes, barbed wire barricades, and guards with drawn guns...
...Columbia 26 8 .308 MacCoy, Princeton 13 4 .308 Schroeder, Yale 10 3 .300 George, Penn. 10 3 .300 Buckley, Harvard 18 5 .278 Bowen, Cornell 18 5 .278 Holt, Yale 11 3 .273 Cosby, Princeton 11 3 .273 Tully, Harvard 11 3 .273 Kocpsell, Penn. 15 4 .267 Pill, Columbia 25 6 .240 Reagan, Penn. 21 5 .238 Brown, Cornell 26 6 .231 Pitchford, Harvard 18 4 .222 Anderofsky, Col. 23 5 .317 McDonald, Penn. 19 4 .211 Hasslinger, Col. 24 5 .208 Desmond, Columbia 20 4 .200 Ruddy, Cornell 20 4 .200 R. Ayres, Harvard...
...Pennsylvania 4 12 .333 Koepsell, Pennsylvania 4 12 .333 Tully, Harvard 2 9 .333 Scholl, Cornell 3 10 .300 George, Pennsylvania 3 7 .286 Sickles, Cornell 3 11 .273 Keyes, Harvard 3 15 .267 Anderofsky, Columbia 4 15 .267 Hasslinger, Columbia 4 16 .250 Gefaell, Princeton 2 8 .250 Pill, Columbia 4 17 .235 Lewerth, Columbia 4 13 .231 Murphy, Columbia 4 18 .222 Pearson, Princeton 2 9 .222 Buckley, Harvard 4 14 .214 Pitchford, Harvard 3 15 .200 Brown, Cornell 3 15 .200 Bowen, Cornell 3 10 .200 Fulton, Harvard 3 10 .200 Reagan, Pennsylvania 4 17 .176 Ruddy...
...killed, and his country going down in defeat, and still say that the booming of the guns is the death rattle, not of civilization, but of the forces of evil. He is a brain specialist, and he sees that the ultimate defenses of civilization are not the pill-boxes of the Mannerheim and Maginot Lines, but the tissues of the human brain, and he thinks they are still in good order, even though they are taking a terrific battering in these times. Mr. Sherwood is distinctly uneasy when he looks at the part America is playing in this cellular shell...
...prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed by the New York Times "a Chesterfield essay. . (which) may become a wartime classic." But whatever its literary merits, Halifax's hate-tirade is a biter pill to swallow after the British government's repeated assertions that Britain fights the Nazi government, not the German people...