Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made it clear what boundaries he would want. Going to a map on the wall, he traced the present Israeli lines in the Negeb. The pointer he used was a rifle cartridge stamped with the date 1948 and two tiny Stars of David. "Our own manufacture," he said proudly...
...Roosevelt's plaque shares the wall by the west door with a statue of Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, 1666-1732; a statue to William Pitt the Younger; a memorial to Jeremiah Horrocks, d. 1641 (who "detected the long inequality in the mean motion of Jupiter and Saturn"), and one to the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury...
...surgeon of Paris' St. Louis Hospital, has now apparently learned the trick. Dr. Bazy's team splits open the artery (in extreme cases for as much as two feet), scrapes out the stoppage, sews it up again. In a few minutes nature deposits white corpuscles along the wall of the scraped-out artery; the corpuscles take the place, temporarily, of the endothelium...
...rowdy hoyden moving in an aura of sex and alcohol. She has been perfectly at ease in a San Francisco waterfront dive, in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, or playing poker with stagehands. She can quote readily, and at impressive length, from the Bible, Shakespeare, and a lavatory wall. Onstage she is gowned by famous designers (she was once called the "world's only volcano dressed by Mainbocher"). Offstage, she prefers slacks and a mink coat. Hollywood didn't know what to make of her, but London adored her for eight wild years...
...some Wall Streeters, last week's drop was more portentous than the actual losses. On the way down, the industrial and railroad averages had broken through their low points of Sept. 27, the last big decline before the pre-election rise. Last May, when both the industrials and rails broke through their previous high marks, followers of the famed Dow theory had proclaimed the "confirmation" of a bull market (TIME, June 14). Now that the same averages had broken through their previous bottoms, did this mean that the bull had been displaced by the bear...