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...wanted her money, his father mistreated her and he wanted to put her out of her pain. After she fell asleep one night, Courtney had dropped chloroform on a wad of cotton which he held over her nose until she died. Said Courtney calmly: "I had an Oedipus complex...
...citizens would have guessed it would be. It was in a cool white building put up for the United States Public Health Service in Washington, across Constitution Avenue from the Munitions and Navy Buildings. By this week the headquarters of the "Combined Chiefs of Staff had become the greatest complex of military secrets in the Allied world...
...week the cells were in division; the Army was off on another multiplication process. Lieut. General Lesley James McNair announced that he would form 32 more fighting divisions during 1942. General McNair's word was "activation"-military lingo for the birth of a new outfit in all the complex panoply of modern weapons, modern organization. He announced that three new divisions would be activated in March, two in May, three in June and four on the 15th of every month thereafter...
...simple, button-pushing job that some people thought it should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride has been ripped out, carted to parking lots; there the machines stand now, coated with grease against the rains of nobody knows how many springs...
Texas researchers last year found that royal jelly, the substance secreted and fed to the queen bees by the workers, is two and a half to six times richer in pantothenic acid-a vitamin of the B complex-than yeast or liver. Hambleton believes that pollen will prove to have a similar content, may soon become a major source of vitamin extracts...