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Earlier in the week northeast Korea had been put under the command of Major General Edward Almond, who led the U.N. landing at Inchon. Almond, whose X U.S. Corps was no longer needed for a seaborne landing, promptly moved his U.S. 1st Marine Division to Wonsan, thereby freeing for combat duty the R.O.K. troops which had been garrisoning the city. This would put more muscle behind the drive into the northeast...
Numerals printed in italics are correct answers to the 105 questions in this test. Check them against your answers and mark your errors and omissions with an X. Subtract number of Xs from 105 to arrive at your score. For example, if you missed 45 questions, your score
Council elections in the future will continue under a system of preferential rather than straight (X) ballots...
Nobody knew much about the dangers of overexposure to X rays when a young intern named Percy Emerson Brown set up the X-ray department at Boston Children's Hospital. The year was 1903 and the X ray was only seven years old. As Dr. Brown later wrote, "Enthusiasm was in the saddle, accoutered with the lance of investigation and the spurs of continued experimental revelation, but not yet with the shield and armor of protection...
Within a year, young Dr. Brown's fingers and nails showed signs of damage; his hands and face became rough and scaly. Soon warty growths appeared. But Dr. Brown kept on with his dangerous work, testing the value of X rays in the study of kidney stones, branching out to see what they could tell about disorders at the base of the skull. In France in World War I, he took X rays for operations to be performed by the late great Brain Surgeon Harvey Gushing. Dr. Brown worked day & night with virtually unshielded field equipment, ignoring the invisible...