Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scalded cats." Usually streaking in at high altitudes, singly or in small groups, Me 410 and FW 190 fighter-bombers cross the Channel from France in 16 minutes or so, dump their bombloads anywhere, skedaddle for home. These in-&-out tactics give the Fighter Command and anti-aircraft guns slight chance to strike back, but the R.A.F. has bagged more than 6% of the intruders. (British Mosquito bomber losses over Germany: less than...
...drug in his saliva (70 milligrams per 100 cc. of saliva; the concentration used in the blood in acute pneumonia is only five to ten milligrams per 100 cc.). Although the concentration is high in the saliva, very little gets into the blood stream and "there is but slight possibility of any systematic toxicity"-i.e., the sulfa in the gum will probably do no harm. Drugstores will have the new gum around Dec. 1, will sell it only on prescription-sulfa drugs are too tricky for indiscriminate use (TIME, June...
...Salvation Army has come up in the world since then. When Commissioner Parker began his work, social service people considered the Salvationists as human refuse collectors, had slight use for the idea that the Gospel could rehabilitate a man. Not so Convert Parker. He got up early mornings to chalk Scripture texts on sidewalks. He drove brass-headed nails in the shape of large S's into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw...
Coach Jack MacDonald is as confident as a winless coach can be about tomorrow's game, since comparative scores in practice games with Medford High School appear to give the Crimson a slight edge, and fall departures have cost the Jumbos dearly...
...told him to get them down to avoid flash burns from enemy fire. The gunner had a bead on a bomber and could not comply; so Roosevelt unrolled one pants leg for him. At that moment a bomb fragment removed the gunner's other leg; Roosevelt suffered a slight hand wound. Big Pancho gave the gunner morphine, applied a tourniquet, lugged him below to sick bay. Says Reynolds: His crew worship the guy. They say he's terrific in combat...