Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the aid of "hindsight," I [have] reached the opinion that the War Plans Division of the General Staff would have placed itself and the safety of the country in a sounder position if it had transmitted to General Short more information than...
...General Short had been told the two essential facts: 1) a war with Japan is threatening, 2) hostile action by Japan is possible at any moment. Given these two facts, both of which were stated without equivocation in the message of Nov. 27, the outpost commander should be on the alert to make his fight...
There was one huge hitch-nobody could go outside the Western Hemisphere just for fun. Many a country, notably Great Britain and Switzerland, wanted dollar-laden tourists. And Eire was still a little bit of tourist heaven. But food supplies were still too short everywhere, hotel and transportation facilities too cramped to accommodate a horde of tourists. People with "good and sufficient" reasons-businessmen going after business, students going to foreign schools, people who wanted to visit relatives-had little trouble getting passports for Europe, Asia, Africa. The U.S. Department of State, swamped with 1,000 passport applications...
SODIUM MORRHUATE, a codliver-oil derivative, has been improved for treatment of varicose veins. Injected into the affected area, the drug kills blood-vessel cells, causes scar tissue which blocks the flow of blood. Diseased veins are short-circuited; neighboring healthy veins take over the traffic...
...chiefly ballad stanzas (with some beautiful original variants on them), and the four-beat couplets which are the basic pulse of English poetry. But his subtle variety and mastery of tone, developed upon those few simple emotions and within that narrow range of key, are as remarkable as anything short of Mozart's minuets. Only the greatest poets had a better musical ear, a subtler handling of meter...