Word: turne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...devout Roman Catholic (he had a chapel built in his home so that priests could say Mass there), he was once supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus. In 1944 Pope Pius XII made him a Papal Chamberlain with Cape and Sword, a post entitling him to serve a turn of duty on the Vatican staff if he ever wants...
...appropriating the money, the Council allowed the NSA a loophole. If they sell more than 1000 purchase cards next year, the Council, which is at present getting a big slice of the card earnings, will turn over the first $100 to the men who paid their own board at the convention...
Next week will be National Pickle Week. All over the country, strong arms and keen minds will move as one man towards the culmination of the annual celebration of this vegetable. The National Pickle Packers Association will hold a convention that will turn the American Legion green with envy. From a line of glorious stars of the screen, the chairman of the group will crown a Pickle Queen. Once more, America will acknowledge the stupendous role the pickle has played in the flowering of the human spirit...
...lines. He also carries an honorary police commissioner's gold badge, likes to loaf around police headquarters. During Boston's 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, in which 492 died, Fiedler was stationed at a morgue. During the war, like many other Bostonians over military age, he took his turn on small Coast Guard Auxiliary craft patrolling Boston Harbor...
...disturbance. It is possible, Drs. Burr and Langman speculated in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, that cancer is a defect "in the design of the organism." If later experiments prove this to be true, they reasoned, there would be no one cause of cancer. Instead, it might turn out that a constitutional defect related to electricity makes the body vulnerable to one or many agents. But like all the other theories about cancer, this one, too, is still to be proved...