Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the sympathetic Scandinavian press continued to refer to Finland as "The Belgium of the North," the Three Kings and their Foreign Ministers reputedly advised President Kallio in secret: 1) to hand over to the Soviet Union certain small islands, near Leningrad; 2) to refuse to concede to the Soviet Union control of the large Aland Islands near Stockholm; 3) to resist Soviet pressure to enter a military alliance which would make Finland the vassal of Russia. This appeared to be the line taken when Finnish Foreign Minister Dr. Juho Paasikivi went back to Moscow this week for more talks...
Judge Thomas Richardson, chairman of Newcastle's Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, rebuked "conchies" assembled before him by fuming: "I'm certain, as sure as I sit here, that if Christ appeared today he would approve of this war." Booed, hissed, Judge Richardson had to clear the court. Later he hemmed: "I was carried away. . . . Some of the statements as to what Christ would do irritated...
Today, although physicians know little more about hay fever than Dr. Holmes did, their attitude is more optimistic. To them the disease which annually sets 6,000,000 U. S. victims gasping is a common form of allergy: a bodily sensitivity to certain foreign substances such as eggs, milk, wheat, horsehair, pollen grains, banana oil. Once these substances get into the bloodstream of sensitive people, there ensue such violent reactions as hives, vomiting, blinding headaches, and what Henry Ward Beecher lovingly called "irrepressible sternutation" (sneezing...
...result. But if the body is taken unawares, and antibodies are resting in tissue cells, a terrific battle follows. The offending allergen may be "neutralized," but only with great damage to tissue cells. As the cells are torn, large quantities of the chemical histamine escape into the bloodstream, cause "certain organic reactions ... in the walls of the blood vessels and in the smooth muscles...
...resent, Mr. McLaughlin, your deliberate use of certain words, i.e. "short-sighted," "cowardly," would rather have others standw in front." Your implications are unjustified and unbecoming in a teacher...