Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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First batch of the 30 schools' new products went to college in 1936. They were not identified as guinea pigs to their classmates. But selected college teachers periodically interviewed them, watched them closely at work and play. By this autumn, when the Eight-Year Study ended, the Commission had examined the college careers of nearly 2,000 progressively educated students, compared them with an equal number of conventional high-school graduates. Findings...
Admiral Sankichi Takahashi, former Commander in Chief of Japan's Combined Fleet: "It will be constructed in several stages. In the first stage, the sphere that Japan demands includes Manchukuo, China, Indo-China, Burma, Straits Settlements, Netherlands Indies, New Caledonia, New Guinea, many islands in the West Pacific, Japan's mandated islands and the Philippines. Australia and the rest of the East Indies can be included later." Hinodé: "When will Japan and America fight...
...Belgian Congo; then Angola (Portuguese) ; then Southwest Africa and the Union of South Africa, which are British. North and west of Gabon lie the Cameroons (French), Nigeria (British), Dahomey and Togo (French mandate), the Gold Coast (British), the Ivory Coast (French), Liberia (free), Sierra Leone (British), French Guinea, Gambia (British, with the harbor of Bathurst) and Sénégal (with Dakar, the French base on Africa's westernmost shoulder-point). Gabon is about equidistant (2,000 mi.) from Dakar and Cape Town...
...ignored air-raid alarms until German bombers were actually overhead and they dawdled and browsed over displays of goods ticketed "For Christmas," in no hurry to pick out presents. Outside famed Peter Robinson's, housewives queued up in a long line to get such "Bomb Bargains" as five-guinea ($21) gowns marked down to two pounds ($8) and "Bomb-Soiled Aertex Jumpers" almost given away at sixpence...
...high explosive builds up a pressure of 200 lb. per square inch at a distance of 15 ft., falling off to only 10 lb. at 50 ft. Dr. Zuckerman exploded uniform 70-lb. charges of H. E. in paper containers on the ground, tested the effect on mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, cats, monkeys and pigeons at distances ranging from 70 to 13 ft. At 50 ft. lung damage began to occur, and at less than 18 ft. almost all the animals were killed. He printed a photograph of a pair of concussed rabbit lungs so deeply suffused with hemorrhagic...