Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangest base hospitals is run by the Fifth Army just behind the lines in Italy. The patients: horses and mules. The doctors: six veterinarians. Nursing is done by 100 enlisted Italians...
TIME does produce great changes, but one of the strangest things it has accomplished is moving Dogger Bank from the North Sea to the Bay of Biscay (TIME, May 8). Where are all your accomplished researchers...
...some ways, it is the strangest medical school in the world. Many of the students are only one generation removed from cannibalism. They are Fijians, Maoris (from New Zealand), Samoans, natives of the Solomon, Cook, New Hebrides, Tonga, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, and a few East Indians...
...instruments in dense cloud over Italy. Tail Gunner James A. Raley, on his thirteenth mission, heard the navigator call out the altitude -19,500 feet. Then the plane jolted, seemed to stop. The intercom went out. Sergeant Raley, hurled into one of the air war's strangest adventures, figured in his lonely section that his plane had collided with another Fortress...
...book-lined living room and made ready for one of the famous Lamb literary evenings. Once Coleridge talked for two hours without stopping, while Wordsworth nodded approvingly from time to time. Asked later if he had understood what Coleridge was talking about, Wordsworth replied: "Not one syllable." Strangest visitor of all was Painter and Essayist Thomas Griffiths Wainewright-who suddenly departed for Paris. Reason: over a period of years he had quietly poisoned his uncle, his mother-in-law and two sisters...