Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...POWER against communism, under all circumstances, to hold key coastal and offshore positions-Japan, Korea, Formosa, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore. Militarily, this program is within present U.S. capabilities. It would not save Asia, but it would save the Pacific, at least temporarily...
...most to make it "quite all right" is ruddy, energetic Paul Cronheim, 56, prewar manager of the Concertgebouw. One of his first acts when he became director of the opera after the war was to send a cable to San Francisco: "Pierre, you must come and save...
...justified in living until I was 30 for science and art, in order to devote myself from that time forward to the direct service of humanity. Many a time already had I tried to settle what meaning lay hidden for me in the saying of Jesus: 'Whosoever would save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for My sake and the Gospels shall save it.' Now the answer was found. In addition to the outward, I had now inward happiness...
...hands on the gilded clock stood precisely at noon when the court crier raised his sepulchral voice: "Oyez, oyez . . . draw near . . . God save the United States and this Honorable Court." Red curtains parted and into the hushed chamber walked the black-gowned justices of the Supreme Court of the U.S. Led by sad-faced Chief Justice Vinson, they took their high-backed seats, variously shaped and padded to fit their various curves...
...found that in such cases the patients had died because of a deficiency of potassium in the blood. When potassium was added in new cases, the patients picked up quickly and survived the operation. Dr. Rhoads believes that such improved surgery and treatment, combined with sufficiently early diagnosis, may save from cancer one-third to one-half of the people who now die of it. That would mean saving the lives of 6,000,000 to 9,000,000 Americans now living who are destined, on the basis of present statistics, to die of cancer...