Word: seek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilby out of town, started for the States by way of roundabout Nanaimo. They were too slow. British Columbia's Attorney General ordered Wilby returned for a new appeal. Said the angry Attorney General: "I don't think any responsible United States official would countenance this hide & seek procedure...
...Practical Application. By 1938, when World War II loomed, a good internal and external antiseptic was still to seek. But at Oxford's Sir William Dunn School of Pathology (53 miles from Dr. Fleming's laboratory) the man who was to make Dr. Fleming's discovery save human lives was already at work on the problem. He was Dr. Howard Walter Florey, 45, an Australian-born professor of pathology. He organized a research team to study the practical extraction of capricious penicillin. The team included experts in chemistry, bacteriology, pathology and medicine. Among them : Mrs. Florey...
While not so forceful as General William Tecumseh Sherman's famed renunciation, this seemed equally binding. Two weeks before, General MacArthur had said only that "I have not sought the office nor do I seek it," which presumably still left him free to accept a Presidential draft. Perhaps after the unauthorized publication of the General's letters to Nebraska's New Deal-hating Congressman Arthur Lewis Miller (TIME, April 24), his Presidential boomlet had collapsed irreparably...
...troops) are the remnants of the Japanese Eighteenth Army, reported to be elements of six divisions and one brigade (about 60,000 men). Reinforcement and supply are cut off. Like the Jap exiles on southern Bougainville, they have little choice but to live sparsely in the jungle, or to seek death in scattered attacks against the overwhelmingly strong American beachhead...
Sexual abnormalities among teen age girls are attributed to negligent parents who are either too busy working or too ill and feeble to look after the welfare of their children. In the play, a desire to get away from house work and enjoy life motivates the girl to seek the wrong kind of companions...