Word: pills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them, stood in crowds all day long before Madrid's railway station last week to be herded into trains and sent off to Valencia and safety. All night long picks and pneumatic drills echoed in the streets. Spain's Radical Government was digging trenches, building pill boxes for the bloody last battle with the Whites which was coming as inevitably as Death. As soon as the street trenches were finished they were manned with taxi drivers, shop clerks, bricklayers, shoemakers, who were ordered to stay at their posts, eating and sleeping there until the attack on Madrid should...
Just before leaving Geneva for London Foreign Minister Eden had swallowed a bitter pill. The basis of his case against Italy was the use of poison gas against unprotected villages. Most of this evidence was in the hands of the International Red Cross. Somebody, French or Italian, had evidently reached the ear of Swiss Max Huber, president of the International Red Cross, which suddenly refused to present its evidence to the League of Nations' Committee of Thirteen. In a pouring rain Anthony Eden went for a long walk in Geneva's Mon Repos Park, stood for a long...
...have made my ethical code out of the hunger and thirst after social righteousness. Such a formula makes life comparatively simple, and it makes religion simple. I took God's help for granted in the work I was doing." A pragmatist who believes that the proof of the pill is in the action, he defines truth as "ideas which aid us to build more capable minds and bodies." A hard worker, never strong, with an equally high-strung wife, he has naturally been drawn to Aesculapian cults, to the seamstress side of religion. Both his wives were interested...
Horton is the master of simplicity, credulity, and timidness in all his parts but his combination of the trio in "His Night Out" seems to surpass many of his previous efforts. As a pill-eating hypochondriac who buys medicine for a chain of drug stores, Homer is the meekest soul imaginable. But this same meekness and utterly unsophisticated manner makes him one of the most hilarious when he undergoes a third degree and thinks he is playing "Twenty Questions" with the police force...
...nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held in a derby hat, whereas the sperm to fertilize them would not exceed the volume of a fairly small pill...