Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them. That is the will of Parliament and the nation. The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and their need, will defend to the death their native soils, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength, even though a large tract of Europe and many old and famous States have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule...
...French Catholic Royalist and a writer of furious eloquence. Best known of his novels is The Diary of A Country Priest. Les Grands Cimetieres sous la Lime (A Diary of My Times) was an excoriation of Generalissimo Franco's fascism which has been called "the greatest tract in a hundred years." The Star of Satan, first published in 1926, was awarded the Prix Goncourt. His first novel, it is sometimes spoken of as the fountainhead of the revival of idealism in French literature. In manner as well as in substance it dares extremes of intensity which may be guaranteed...
...Shasta Dam, devised to stabilize Sacramento Valley's water supply, engineers built a ten-mile belt line to convey 10,000,000 cubic yards of gravel to the world's No. 2 dam. For their gravel pit they chose Christ Kutras' tract of land...
...continued Dr. Kennedy, is forgetful because his memory tract, the corpus callosum (a belt of fibres connecting the two brain hemispheres), shrinks to one-third its size. And he loses interest in his environment because he is plagued by "sensations from his gut," which his brain is not strong enough to control...
Cancer of Esophagus and Stomach. In the U. S., most cancer occurs in the digestive tract. Main cause: too much tobacco and alcohol, improper chewing, constant gulping of hot foods, irregular meals, tooth diseases. Early excision of stomach cancers brings excellent results, said Drs. Livingston and Pack, but it is almost impossible to detect such cancers while they are still small...