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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lunged for the shore as nervous as bulls entering the bullring," he later cabled the Chief of our News Bureau. "It was still an unhealthy area, and intermittently all day we were scurrying for cover as grenades burst a jew paces away or a stream of bullets parted the leaves overhead. About noon word was passed to prepare for a bombing attack. We dived for cover and I found myself waist-deep in water in a swampy pit. Whenever we took cover Jap snipers popped out and bullets would whine through our entire area. About three o'clock there...
...gets a high concentration of the 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...
...years that followed truly brought glory to Mem Hall. Those were the times when she fed one thousand students daily under the vaulted arches of her nave. Hardly a meal passed without some outburst of excitement. Bloody fights among the colored waiters. Class wars, and demonstrations against the constant stream of sightseers who thronged the galleries to "watch the animals eat" served to hallow the bust-lined walls. Many were the wild tales that passed about of stray dogs which disappeared into her kitchens never again to see the light...
...hills and the forts, the number of his troops and his opponents'. The difference was that Napoleon's achievements in both politics and warfare were hailed by most commentators, beginning with himself, while Wellington, who refused to have books written about his battles, was discredited. The incessant stream of Napoleonic propaganda that flowed in a torrent from the 19th into the 20th Century undermined Wellington's military reputation: "There is something disquieting," says Author Aldington, "about the almost fanatical boosting of the arch dictator throughout the period which was at least pretending to apply the principles...
...sunbathed square and under the balconies of Bay Street, Bahaman blacks shuffled through their work or rested in the warm sun. The bars at the Prince George and the Rozelda waited for recess and brisk trade. Beyond the town and the deep blue water of the Gulf Stream there was a world at war, but in Nassau this week interest was focused on the legal battle for Freddy's life...