Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that this photograph [see below] may shed some light on the mysterious disappearance of the aviatrix...
Quentin Reynolds, bestselling, high-living war correspondent (The Wounded Don't Cry), shed a public tear for war's freeloading days, recalled in Broadway's trade paper Variety* his eating & drinking with the French Army ("very good"), with the R.A.F. ("the drinks were very good"), with the U.S. Army ("excellent"). War correspondents are now hungry has-beens, he mourned: "We can be had cheap...
...Carbon-13, a rare-as-radium substance that can now be produced in quantities, may shed new light on the mysteries of human metabolism. It may also provide clues to the cause & cure of cancer, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, other metabolic diseases. It is like ordinary carbon but has a greater atomic weight. Absorbed into the system, C13 can be easily identified by its added weight, and precisely traced-with an electrical instrument-through the entire process of metabolism. Doctors may thus learn how food and drugs behave when they meet disease germs, or cancer, inside the body...
...bidding started at $5,000, went up at $5,000 a clip. As the bidding got hotter, Rodanz shed his cap and coat. Finally the price reached $48,000. Someone coaxed Rodanz: "Let's set another world's record." Rodanz loosened his tie, took a deep breath, then upped the ante $3,000. The bull was his for $51,000, after only six minutes of bidding...
Fourteen Points. The week's testimony also shed light on the warning that came too late-the message Walter Short received on Dec. 7 at 2:58 p.m. Hawaiian time, informing him that the Japs were...