Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The idea of sterilizing the air is not new -London's great fire of 1666, for example, was touched off by the countless fires which townsmen lit to purge the air of plague. Use of chemical sprays to control air contamination was first attempted in 1928 by three doctors...
A new treatment for the relief of severe bronchial asthma, announced last fortnight, makes use of a sensational blood purge. The "Knott technique" removes part of the patient's blood, passes it through a precision machine which exposes it to ultraviolet light for a few seconds, then returns it...
It was a somewhat changed, more modest, even more ascetic Ben Cohen who now settled himself at practical Jimmy Byrnes's right hand-ready to draft his orders, do his leg work, feed him ideas. In the palmy middle years of the New Deal, Ben Cohen and Thomas G...
While you (very properly) castigate and laugh at our rabble-rousing, gallus-snappin', education-proof, nigger-baitin' . . . Gene Talmadge, thank you for not letting the nation forget that Georgia has given to the Senate one of its most distinguished statesmen, Walter George. Don't let them forget...
Virginia. Labor was out to purge dour, union-baiting Congressman Howard Worth Smith; so were the New Dealers who live in his district and work across the river in Washington. But the primary showed that Virginia's famed "Courthouse Crowd" (the Harry Byrd political machine) was still in the...