Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Country Hospital in Shanghai's International Settlement, where a U. S. Marine Navy Pharmacist's Mate Horace Albert Thomson obliged with a blood transfusion. Instead of making a formal apology the Japanese rebuked the British Ambassador for not having a Union Jack spread on the roof of his car. The attitude of Whitehall to this attack on the sacrosanct person of their Ambassador was "one of unbounded exasperation." Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden promised to take "appropriate measures," dispatched a note to Tokyo...
Franciscan zeal waned; in 1835 there were but 150 Indian converts at Carmel. Uncared for, the San Carlos Mission fell prey to wind and rain, which destroyed its tiled roof, and to weeds which engulfed Fray Junipero's cell and his grave. Not until 1882 was restoration begun on the mission. Not until last week, which brought the 153rd anniversary of the good Franciscan's death, was the restoration of his simple cell completed. By then, the Franciscans now in charge of the Carmel Mission, and their superior, Bishop Philip George Scher of the Monterey-Fresno diocese...
...attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce i cc. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
...Brazil. When Miss Lowell sailed for Brazil she said she intended to become a Brazilian citizen. She built herself a brick house on a beach clearing backed by jungle, had herself appointed district nurse. One of her accomplishments was installing, as a sanitary measure, cement floors in the thatched-roof huts of the natives. In Rio de Janeiro, Hoaxmistress Lowell said she ministered so well to the natives they named her "Donna Joan, the Miracle Woman...
...away her dowry savings, invested in Russian bonds. When peace came and Ernest was released, things looked brighter; then the post-War slump and a series of bad harvests put them hopelessly behind. It was no longer a question of buying the family chateau but of saving their own roof and patching the leaks...