Word: welches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French front-line operating shacks. Tetanus, great killer in all previous wars, was practically eliminated by routine injections of anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine...
FRITZ E. OSTERKAMP New York City Royal Welch Sirs...
Shame on TIME for saying (May 15, p. 87) that Poet Robert Graves served as an officer with the "Royal Welch Fusiliers...
...Royal Welch Fusiliers have so spelled their name since the 17th Century. The spelling was officially confirmed by a British Army order in 1920, in recognition of the regiment's services during the World...
...night of March 23 the Sea Dragon was some 1,200 miles west of Midway Island. In the same seas, 40 feet high, the liner President Coolidge was running' through a typhoon, her speed slowed to six knots. From the Sea Dragon Captain Welch radioed to Dale Collins, executive officer of the President Coolidge: Southerly gales, Squalls. Lee rail under water. Hard tack. Bully beef. Wet bunks. Having wonderful time. Wish you were here instead of me. Welch, Master...