Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular Army and am armed with the Garand. I was with the 1st Division Task Force when we made beach landings on the Island of Culebra from Jan. 27 to Feb. 13, 1941. We too had to make landings in small boats and the rifles did become wet with salt spray and were dragged in the sandy beach. Many were dropped into the water also. But in the entire company, I did not see or hear of a case where the rifle refused to fire...
...school morning last week in Salt Lake City, the corner of Ninth South and Eleventh East Streets was as busy as usual: scores of cars rushing city workers downtown, busses carrying students to nearby grade schools, junior high schools, the East High school, the University of Utah. Sidewalks were thick with children...
...Once some social service workers asked him about the prevalence of homosexuality in Puerto Rico. "Can't be very popular," snorted the reformer, "or some political party would make it a plank in its platform." Program of the Popular Democratic Party includes abolition of the 1?-a-pound salt tax, the 2% sales tax, tax exemption for homes valued at $1,000 or less, restrictions on mortgage foreclosures, establishment of a social-security commission. Beyond that Muñoz Marin wants a reform of Puerto Rico's bilingual educational system, under which children study all classes in English...
...test works a good deal like skin-testing for allergy. The test material is colostrum-a thin, watery fluid secreted in the breasts of gravid women. From them colostrum is extracted, mixed with sterile salt solution and a preservative chemical, stored under refrigeration to await use. To make a Falls test, a small amount of the colostrum preparation is injected into a woman's forearm. If she is not pregnant, a reddish weal will appear. If she is pregnant she will not react. Theory is that pregnant women, secreting colostrum of their own, are immune to injections...
Last week, behind the Kraut Line, the Bruins snowed the New York Americans under, 8 goals to 3, to salt away their third straight National Hockey League title (26 wins, 8 losses, 12 ties). The Bruins had just managed to nose out Toronto's Maple Leafs, who had the same number of wins, six fewer ties, six more losses. Never before had any team won three titles in a row. Starting the season sluggishly, the Bruins suddenly clicked, went 23 games without a defeat, an all-time record. Chortled Manager Art Ross: "My gang would be great...