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...sense of constant strangeness under which the hard-working colonials lived. The barrel of pitch on Beacon Hill in Boston, to be lighted in case of attack, was a far more meaningful landmark than the fire-alarm boxes on contemporary corners-though the menace it was intended to warn against may have been less than city dwellers face today. The animals were strange and exotic, the trees and plants were rare, the hazards of the quixotic weather were untested, and the Indians, savage as the Japanese, were at once converts, enemies, neighbors, field workers, barbarians, trail blazers, and victims. From...
...latter is not quite so easy as 47 year-old Baker makes out. The audience is encouraged to heckle Baker and the contestant. If the audience thinks the contestant is not equal to, say, the $32 question, they warn him to pocket his money and leave, chanting: "You'll be sorry." Such challenges Baker must meet with his unrehearsed patter out of years of experience (beginning in Philadelphia, much of it in vaudeville...
...played a recording of an air raid so loud that he could not hear his own voice, but the patient heard Salter's questions and gave the right answers (read from his lip movements). Salter's patients took to this game so eagerly that he had to warn them : he found that they hypnotized themselves to deafness while walking in the street and failed to hear approaching cars...
Airman Sinclair had come back to warn his fellow members that they had better legislate now to provide for the fighting men against the day that fighting ceases. He had specific complaints: 1) that the allowances now planned for demobilized men in training for civilian jobs are insufficient; 2) that the Canadian system of discharge pay (one month) is unfair and insufficient. The Flight Lieutenant spoke for the ranks...
...after operation, 3) help schizophrenic and other insane patients, probably by improving the health of nerve fibers, 4) fight rheumatism ("against acute arthritis it is a quick and certain cure"), hardening of the arteries and several other chronic diseases, 5) speed healing of wounds, burns, frostbite injuries. But they warn that ACS is harmful in certain heart diseases...