Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heard from U. S. Ambassador to Belgium Joseph E. Davies that a third term is necessary to save the U. S. from war involvement; pondered how to keep the politically influential Mr. Davies...
Already in this war, said M. Giraudoux, more British sailors and French soldiers have been lost than in those "battles to save the world- Thermopylae and Valmy."* Moreover, "even if it means boring the world to tears," the Allies are not going to bother about giving a "performance packed with box-office appeal for the reading and listening audiences. . . . Our Army is intact and ready, but fighting as we are for the principles of life against the principles of death, we would be contradicting ourselves if we sacrificed a single man to the pageantry...
...blood serum alone), as well as moderate injections of salt and sugar water. In nine days she was out of danger; in two months, neatly patched with skin grafts, she was "completely healed." The "complex regimen" of "properly balanced fluids" and blood transfusions, said Dr. Trusler last week, saved her life. "No local application [of tannic acid]," he warned, ". . . or forcing of water . . . can be expected to save life after a large burn...
...King could take home to his wife & children* was about a French schoolmarm, dating back to his great-grandmother's day, who expressed regret that she had not known sooner of his coming. Otherwise, she said, she would have taught her small charges "to sing 'God Save the Queen...
...Item came out with an editorial platform calling for punishment of "all who have stolen from State and Federal Governments," rigid State economy, honest elections. Next day, in an editorial headed At Long Last, the States sarcastically welcomed the Item "to the fold of those who are battling to save Louisiana from political racketeers, political thieves and corruptionists...