Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goring, who was very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...
Bright Prospects. But there was no particular hurry. On a 160-acre tract of deep country near Oakland, Calif., O'Neill and his wife spent their first years of liberty designing and building a big house as beautiful as their prospects. They christened it Tao House. * In 1935, O'Neill began to block out his massive cycle of plays. Every day he worked from about 8 in the morning until about 1 :30, writing as a rule quite freely and surely, in his elegant, complex, microscopic hand. Carlotta, often with the help of a magnifying glass, typed...
...Streptomycin is by far the best therapeutic agent available for... this disease " Urinary Tract Infections (kidneys and bladder). Of 409 patients, some of whom had been ill for 20 years, streptomycin cured 171, improved...
...central headquarters, Witnesses methodically divided the city into 11,773 four-block sectors. Then, like locusts, they swarmed out, haranguing pedestrians, charging up doorsteps with portable phonographs (message: let Roman Catholics change their ways), hawking the limitless output of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society...
Diseases now being treated with the drug include: typhoid, food poisoning, undulant fever and rabbit fever; certain infections of the genitourinary tract; some types of blood poisoning, meningitis, pneumonia and bacterial endocarditis. Limited research is being conducted in tuberculosis...