Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important it will be for all GOPolitical hopefuls to reckon with Harold Stassen became obvious last week when the ex-Minnesota Governor shed his Navy captain's stripes and became plain Citizen Stassen...
More blood was shed in The Netherland East Indies last week. Little of it was Dutch. Their troops hovered in ships off Java's great naval base of Surabaya. Ashore, British casualties went over 300, Indonesian over...
From the start, A.P. was noted for his daring and unorthodox operations. When his bank building was destroyed in San Francisco's earthquake in 1906, he opened a new bank in a waterfront shed, expanded by lending to businessmen who had been wiped out. A pioneer in branch banking, he now has California blanketed with 491 Bank of America branches. He became Hollywood's banker, has so far lent the movie industry...
...already been adjudged (by the 1942 Roberts report) as derelict in their duties: Lieut. General Walter C. Short, Commander of the Army's Hawaiian Department, and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet on the day the Japs attacked. New light shed by the reports did nothing to brighten their records; it cast them, indeed, into darker shadow. What the new light did was to illuminate other failures. Among them...
...another. He will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals, never the other way. On leaving at night, the worker will shed his laboratory gear, wash, examine his body for ticks in a six-sided mirror, put on his civvies and go home feeling as safe as any germ-worker...