Word: shields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strangest thing about Arnold Bernstein is that he operates equally well on either side of the Nazi v. Jew fence. While his Tel Aviv flies the red shield of Palestine on its Union Jack, his Red Star and Bernstein Line ships fly the black swastika of Germany. Only important Jewish shipping man left in Hitler's Reich, he enjoys government protection chiefly because of his distinguished War record, which included an important artillery command on the Western Front and the Iron Cross, first class. Soon after the War this Saxon-born son of a well-to-do shipping broker...
Since English editors make it their duty to shield the public from certain facts of life, they deduced from Sir Bernard's findings not that the Waterloo legs had belonged to a pervert but that the murdered man "may have been attending a masquerade party...
...more than a suspicion that their Royalist Premier, ruthless M. Panyoti Tsaldaris, expected to restore Greek King George II two years ago, if hired assassins had only succeeded in slaying the greatest of living Greeks, foxy old M. Eleutherios Venizelos, eight times Premier and even in retirement the strong "Shield of the Republic...
...sent him off to bring back the head of the Gorgon Medusa whose glance turned men to stone. With winged sandals given by the Nymphs, the helmet of Hades which made him invisible, and the sword of Hermes, Perseus watched Medusa's reflection in Athena's shield, cut off the head, returned to Seriphus to rescue his mother by exposing the petrifying head to the eyes of the king and all his court...
...thickening of the skin of their hands, caused by repeated exposure to x-rays, roentgenologists are reconciled. Upon the assurance of Mayo Clinicians many an x-ray man has ceased to wear heavy lead-filled rubber gloves and aprons as a positive shield against x-rays which, while harmless to the patient, might seriously injure the examiner. Mayo Clinicians assured the profession that ordinary leather gloves and plain clothing gave the x-ray technician all the protection he needed. Recently, however, Mayo radiologists tested their data, found themselves wrong and frankly recanted in the American Journal of Roentgenology...