Word: staines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WIDENING STAIN-W. Bolingbroke Johnson-Knopf ($2.50). A sultry French teacher and an elderly classicist with a weather eye for women are violently extinguished in a U.S. university library. A girl cataloguer, playing a hunch, risks her life and traps a murderer with a peculiar motive. A capable plot enriched with gay limericks on academic life...
...declared: "A river of blood has flowed and is flowing between the German race and the peoples of all Europe. It is not the hot blood of battle, where good blows are given and returned. It is the cold blood of the execution yard and scaffold, which leaves a stain indelible for generations and for centuries...
...machine-gun post has been dug in the shape of a swastika. It is filled with used and unused clips of bullets, with tattered pieces of cloth, some lined in fleece, and with puddles of water still dyed with the unmistakable stain of blood...
...cannot yet see how deliverance will come or when it will come, but nothing is more certain than that every trace of Hitler's footsteps, every stain of his infected, corroding fingers will be sponged and purged and, if need be, blasted from the surface of the earth...
Measles is transmitted by a tiny virus which was made visible under the microscope in 1937 with a stain called nigrosin. Last year a successful vaccine was announced. It will be useful to protect boys going into the Army from remote rural districts, where they have never had measles or acquired natural immunity. Many such boys in World War I died of pneumonia, brought on by measles...