Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Drum. The Assistant Chief of Staff appeared to reiterate the view that the Army would suffer if the Air Service were separated from it. He admitted that the Air Service needed more men and larger appropriations, but decared that it suffered merely as the rest of the Army from economies. Said he: "The establishment of a separate air force independent of the Army cannot be justified on any ground whatever. Whether it be an air, corps under the War Department, apart from the Army, a separate air force under a new executive department, or a third co-ordinate...
...earlier than that he had protested to Mr. Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander of the Nevada, then...
...exposed to air it coagulates. This is a very necessary quality for when there is a lesion of a blood vessel, the blood issuing from the wound tends to clot, preventing further loss of blood. In certain persons this quality of the blood is absent, so that if they suffer even a slight wound they may readily bleed to death. The disease is known as hemophilia...
...diphtheria membrane in its throat, suddenly respond to the marvelous effects of a diphtheria antitoxin will oppose to the utmost any attempt to deprive the child of that remedy. . . .I have seen guinea pigs by the thousands utilized for that purpose. . . .I have never seen a guinea pig suffer as much as a hysterical antivivisectionist at a dog show...
...Suffer Only Minor Injuries...