Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle zone, but weakly in the rear; that Lieut. General Butler's forces were organized with most of their strength to the left; that the British Buffs of the 18th Division were organized around a quarry. When the big push came, each of these positions received special treatment; Gough a tremendous bombardment just behind his battle line, cutting off his rear completely; Butler, an enveloping attack; the Buffs' quarry, a blasting from field guns brought right into the German front line. So may it go at Forbach, Hornbach, Wissembourg, et al., if & when Adolf Hitler decides to push...
Afterward Schutzstaffel men claimed they found in the university an anti-Nazi broadcasting station and secret printing plant. Soon Prague heard the crack of firing squads. Nine Czech students were executed, and all universities in the Protectorate were closed for three years, treatment no less harsh than the Tsars used to give their rebellious undergraduates. Over 2,000 people were arrested in Prague. Eight hundred were almost immediately released, but the Nazis were said to be sending many of the rest to the notorious Buchenwald prison camp in Germany near Weimar...
...pressure difference between the air in the [ear] cavity and that of the surrounding atmosphere. It ... occurs during changes of altitude," starts as a "hissing, roaring, crackling, or snapping," soon leads to warm pain and vertigo, often deafness. Yawning, shouting or singing may help to equalize the pressure. Treatment is the same as for ordinary earache: dry heat and a cotton plug...
...Once gouty always gouty" is an old medical maxim, yet doctors believe that clean living and plenty of outdoor exercise can reduce attacks to mere demonstrations in force. Standard treatment, besides wrapping the throbbing foot in cotton wool, is a diet with plenty of water, and strangely enough, fat, especially fresh butter. Many doctors also rely on injections of colchicine (from the root of the autumn crocus) to relieve the agonizing pain, and cinchophen (a complicated synthetic acid) to promote uric acid elimination...
...fought the last part of that battle with our fists and the fascists fought it with heavy artillery." Franco's advance on Barcelona: "An unarmed man is killed, and then the fascists step on his body to advance." Her pages on the evacuation of Barcelona, on the treatment the refugees received at the hands of the French Government, are dreadful reading. In February 1939 she came to the U. S. to raise money. She had scarcely arrived when Madrid fell...