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...America's Navy in World War II, Correspondent Gilbert Cant reported the achievements of the U.S. Navy from the outbreak of war to the fall of Guadalcanal. The Great Pacific Victory completes the trilogy with an able, authoritative account of the up-from-the-sawdust resurgence of U.S. power in the war against Japan...
...Death was claiming three of every ten Italian babies before the age of one. Infants who survived hunger and disease had not enough clothes. For warmth, many were cribbed in sawdust...
...experts might be too sophisticated to admit it, but in the public eye the Army team is a gang of super-dupermen who dwell high on the west banks of the Hudson, knock the sawdust out of tackling dummies all week, emerge from their caves on Saturday afternoon to scare women, children and mere mortal football foes. There is logic in the notion...
Pastor Youngdahl is no sawdust-trail evangelist. Quiet, forceful, hardworking, he preaches ten-to-twelve-minute sermons, studded with human-interest stories which relate Christian truths to modern living. He believes no minister need be a ranter: "I've got something to sell. The greatest thing in the world. Christianity works...
Monstrous holes in the skull and other bones are now being mended with a sort of bone sawdust obtained from the patient himself. Toronto's Lieut. Colonel Stuart Douglas Gordon, 43, who developed the method, has even managed "rebuilding [of] the better part of a soldier's skull, including a completely new eye-socket and cheekbone." The material which Colonel Gordon uses, called cancellous bone, is the spongy substance found between hard bone and marrow. The body's biggest storehouse of it is the hip bone. In its new site, cancellous bone becomes hard and fixed within...