Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind as yet, Nor have we shed our light within the grave; But, as the sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings To run and fly and dive at our behest, Through which the mighty wind of freedom sings. America is not a land of rest...
...settle a baffling question: How big is a book? Author Carmer claimed that he had fulfilled his Farrar & Rinehart contract with a 40,000-word history of The Submarine Sturgeon, famed for Lieut. Commander William L. Wright's terse description of its baptism in battle: "Sturgeon no longer virgin." The publishers claimed that he still owes them a book because his submarine history was not "full-length." New York Supreme Court Judge Lloyd Church decided to let a jury decide the legal length of a full-length book...
Unlike British hecklers, who frequently break up meetings, U.S. hecklers normally do no more than stand on the fringe of the crowd, in "hecklers' row," try to confound the speaker by citing Biblical chapter & verse. A standard question when prayers to the Virgin are discussed is "What about I Timothy 2:5?" ("For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ.") Evidence speakers call this verse-&-chapter heckling "playing the numbers game...
...vast forests, learned that dead timber was useful when smart operators began logging the scene of the tremendous Tillamook fire in 1933, almost as soon as the ashes were cold. But wartime demand has produced scores of smaller woods-salvage operations. The best plywood logs are from virgin-growth trees, but chunks need be no longer than 8½feet. As a result farmers are logging lo-foot stumps left by pioneer woods crews near Grays Harbor, and selling them for prices ranging from $20 to $40. And the rush to harvest long-dead timber is eliminating many an ancient...
...treatment was developed in experiments on Virgin Islanders by Dr. Harold W. Brown, of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He gave twelve patients daily injections of an antimony compound (lithium antimony thiomalate). In all but one case, the drug destroyed all or nearly all the microfilariae in the blood in less than a month. A recheck four or five months after treatment showed no increase in the worms. Though the drug did not kill all the mother filariae in the glands, Dr. Brown thinks that repeated treatments, killing their offspring, may dispose of the mothers...