Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entrance and large jagged exit. The wounds were invariably infected, many teeming with maggots. ... As noted in the World War, and in keeping with the maggot therapy for chronic osteomyelitis, the wounds when cleared of maggots presented healthy granulations and were certainly none the worse for the infestation. . . . "The weather in Manchuria was severely cold and exposures following wounds were often severe and prolonged. Gratifying salvage of apparently hopeless gangrenous forearms, hands, ankles, and feet rewarded expectant conservative nursing measures. The dead parts were permitted to separate spontaneously. A black, cold, apparently lifeless limb re covered often with loss...
...hills to watch the takeoff, there was little commotion over what was to be the longest formation flight ever attempted-2,400 mi. The Navy did not think of it as a remarkable flight but a routine transfer of equipment and personnel by air. On San Francisco Bay weather was almost too good. Loaded seaplanes need a brisk headwind or a slightly choppy sea to help them pull up from the water. The ships of 10-F huge Consolidated sesqui-planes with 100-ft. wingspread and twin Wright Cyclone engines, were each loaded to the gunwales. After a half hour...
...would have been, not a leader, but a neatly cooperating cog in the machine; his remarks on the subject of what has already been done at Dearborn would not have carried the weight they now do. Henry, of course, believes that years from now, when the President's fair weather friends have left him, when the storms of capitalist opposition howl mercilessly about the White House, he will come to the fore with his support; we will then move on to the new social era, which is going to be "a millennium of justice and plenty...
...summer weather at Houston that afternoon. The night brought winter winds which pitched and tossed the plane. Mrs. Trammell and a nurse took turns holding the baby. At one refueling stop Jimmy Wedell borrowed an overcoat. At 1:57 a. m., 11 hr. after leaving Houston, the plane landed on Baltimore's snow-encrusted airport. An ambulance sped the Trammells to Johns Hopkins where Dr. Dandy's associate, Dr. Paul A. Kunkel, confirmed the Houston diagnosis of hydrocephalus...
Died. Arthur T. Hickey, 37. master of the American Export Liner Exarch; by his own hand; aboard his ship, few hours after it went aground on the coast of Cyprus at midnight in fair weather. Died. Knud Rasmussen, 54, Danish explorer; of complications following an attack of food poisoning suffered in East Greenland where, making sound films of an Eskimo festival, he partook of the feast; in Copenhagen. Greenland-born, son of a Danish missionary and an Eskimo girl, he knew the difficult, highly inflected Eskimo tongue from birth; spent most of his life studying Greenland and its people; wrote...