Word: sameness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burns. Standard treatment for burns, whether caused by incendiary bombs, mustard gas or lewisite, is application of tannic-acid dressings. Where tannic acid is not available, strong, lukewarm tea is a good substitute. Tannic-acid compresses must be left undisturbed for two or three weeks, until new skin forms. Victims...
Conceding that his survey showed that the University of Today is not a complete failure, Dr. MacLean found some of his findings "shocking." Said he: "It is appalling to discover that there are few, if any, observable differences, in other respects than earning power alone, between the graduates and non...
Luck of the draw was with Riggs, for Quist and Bromwich were seeded in the same half. After four days of play in which the favorites advanced as expected, U. S. tennis fans hoped for a final between Riggs and one of the Australian invaders.
> Following the U. S. State Department's restrictions on transatlantic travel (see below), Pan American changed its European terminals to Foynes, Eire instead of Southampton, Lisbon, Portugal instead of Marseille. Same time, pleading "extraordinary demands upon the United States . . . services," Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney sought CAA permission to double...
"Atrocity" story-of-the-week came not from France or Britain but from Germany. Frederick Oechsner, United Press correspondent with the German Army in Poland, cabled that he had seen 25 bodies in Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), supposedly civilians of German blood who had been killed and mutilated by retreating Poles. German...