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Cerebral hemorrhage (also called "a stroke" of apoplexy) rarely strikes a person with normal, healthy arteries; a normal blood vessel can stand 14 times the ordinary blood pressure without bursting. The artery that burst in the President's head was presumably hardened and thickened by arteriosclerosis, which may be caused by old age, infection, overwork, worry, overexertion. A mere sneeze may raise blood pressure enough to rupture such a vessel...
...importance of the battleship is one of the interesting features of the Pacific war. . . . Battleship fire provides the only gun (or weapon for that matter) which is sufficiently powerful and accurate to knock out reinforced concrete pillboxes eight to ten feet thick. . . . The battleship is a versatile and essential vessel, far from obsolete...
...Olympus). The letter was written when the Justice was old, alone and with "no one to call him by his first name," to students who wanted to celebrate his goth birthday: "On the eighth of March, 1862 . . . the sloop Cumberland was sunk by the Merrimac, off Newport News. The vessel went down with her flag flying-and when a little later my regiment arrived . . . I saw the flag still flying above the waters. . . . It was a lifelong text for a young man. Fight to the end and go down with your flag at the peak...
...this week, rumbling over bridges captured by the Airborne, the British were across the Vessel River and, well ahead of schedule, had pushed at least 15 miles into the plain. General Simpson's Americans had broken across the Essen-Berlin autobahn, at one point were 17 miles east of the Rhine...
...Navy plans to reconvert the French liner Normandie (now the U.S.S. Lafayette) into a military vessel were abandoned last spring. She is now lying idle in an unnamed U.S. port. Best guess: the hulk will be turned back to the French after the war, possibly to be rebuilt as a peacetime luxury liner...