Word: tightenings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the delicate artery branches, or arterioles, tighten and dam up the flow of blood in the main arteries, this pressure is greatly increased. Some causes of hypertension : overactivity of the thyroid gland, emotional disturbances, an abnormally large volume of circulating blood, toxemias of pregnancy. Normal blood pressure increases with age, ranges from no to 135 for a normal adult male.* High blood pressure may climb...
...huge new spy hunt involves checking up on domestic servants, railroad, shipyard and hospital employes; on aliens who have started nightclubs in London's West End, where service men on leave, their tongues loosened on "bottle parties," are prone to speak too freely. As an example to tighten British tongues and defeat the spy system from that end, a court-martial in London last week deprived an unnamed naval officer of his commission for "careless talk...
...Smoking their pipes in headmasters' libraries, they talk to future Freshmen about scholarships, tell them what they will face at Harvard. Because first year-men, unused to Harvard, get into more jams than upperclassmen, the University provides them with more guidance. The tendency in late years has been to tighten the Dean's Office's supervision over Freshmen, which Dean Leighton insists is of a helpful rather than punitive nature...
...outline of the Allied Supreme War Council's spring strategy could be drawn last week, it was this: to continue holding Germany in a vise by land and sea; to help Finland resist Russia in the north; to make that resistance stronger, and at the same time tighten the vise-grip on Germany, by "formidably" threatening Russia on the southeast...
...sent many a neat package of sausage, chocolate, coffee, soap, with Gruss und Kuss (Greetings and Kisses). The practice became popular again when Hitler ordered the Nazis to stick out their chests, pull in their stomachs, get ready for World War II. Last fall, as German belts began to tighten behind the British blockade, a stream of food packages began to flow from the U. S. to Germany, through neutral countries...