Word: dose
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...British maintained, morning after morning, that in spite of civilian suffering, damage to industrial targets and shipping facilities was not serious in view of the heaviness of the raids. But people who saw Bristol after its third major dose said that, while ships were still loading and unloading there, wide sections of the town (pop. 415,000) looked worse than the shattered heart of Coventry. It was reliably reported that big Southampton was again out of action as a port of ingress...
...most magnificent passages in the English language;* but it is about a mother-in-law. William Shakespeare himself gets uncommonly fancy and feeble; the one grand piece of eloquence Dr. Phelps allows him to deliver is from Hamlet, is spoken in disgust, and is, at that, the mildest dose of vitriol the good doctor could lift out of Hamlet's tongue-lashing. And Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a sometime master of verbal magic, begins a mother-sonnet...
...After repairing its diplomatic break with Chile, whose Valparaiso Consul is also a Hispanidad Councilman, Spain began taking first shipments on a 150,000-ton nitrate order last week. But Riestra's reception in Havana was evidence that Latin America was not yet ready for a full dose of Axis-made love and intelligence...
Burgy Ayres' work yesterday was confined to jogging, but he will be in shape for the Elis. He received several bad bruises in the Brown scuffle. All the men who played last Saturday were excused early, but not before getting a good dose of Yale running and passing plays topped off with some work on their own offense...
...three-hour sessions of lecturing a week is the prescribed dose for primary students under the intensified training program requiring but a half instead of a full year as in 1939-40. Secondary students must attend four two-hour lectures a week...