Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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East View, N. Y.-Roma Garrett, 4, is slowly dying of leucemia. . . . Physicians have abandoned hope of saving her life. Union City, N. J.-Theodora Alosio, 4, a victim of leucemia, was gravely ill. The child's life had been prolonged by four blood transfusions. . . . She died while her parents stood beside her. Memphis, Tenn.-Four-year-old Willie Mae Miller died today on a hospital operating table where she had been rushed for a hurried examination after a relapse at her home. There was a gasp of pain, then a fleeting little smile. She slumped back...
...armorers, after all, are the true internationalists. Regardless of their nationalities, they work in concert at the two axioms of their trade--prolong wars, disturb peace. Between 1914 and 1918 they practiced constantly a neat practical way of prolonging...
...Norway and Sweden between 1912 and 1919. He Stated, in so many words, that if the "blockade" of Germany had been really effective during 1915 and 1916, Germany would have been forced to her knees long before the collapse of Russia permitted her to prolong the struggle by throwing more troops into the trenches of the Western Front. And it is he who is responsible for the following statement: "In 1915 England exported twice as much nickel to Sweden as in the two previous years put together. Of the total imports of 504 tons, seventy were reshipped to Germany...
...that you see fit. ... "Last summer I asked some of the [Brain Trusters] what their concrete plan was for bringing on the proposed overthrow of the established American social order. "I was told that they believed that by thwarting our then evident recovery they would be able to prolong the country's destitution until they had demonstrated to the American people that the Government must operate industry and commerce. "The most surprising statement made to me was the following: " 'We believe that we have Mr. Roosevelt in the middle of a swift stream and that the current...
...this country; its only virtue is that it does not commit the State Department to anything and lets it straddle the real issue of whether C'ba is to be allowed to govern itself or is to be an American dependency. Inasmuch as its only effect is to prolong the misery of the Cuban people, it should be abandoned immediately and for it substituted a clear and forceful policy...