Word: isolationized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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As Munichtime dragged away, voices joined the old chorus, saying this is a small world. The wheels rolled faster, Berlin and Moscow joined hands, Poland vanished in a clap of thunder. World War II crystallized Isolation as the dominant U. S. mood.
>Minnesota's behemoth Governor Harold Stassen, scouting in Washington for tips for his coming G. 0. P. keynote speech, emphasized his address would demand a real isolation policy.
An outstanding army medical research worker throughout the Spanish-American War, General Russell introduced the U. S. Army to the use of anti-typhoid vaccine. He invented the Russell double-sugar medium for cultivation of typhoid bacilli, there by permitting the isolation of the baccilli for study.
A smothering blizzard delayed the Allies' mopping-up around Narvik last week. As advertised in advance (to give all who wished a chance to leave), British warships lying in Ofot Fjord shelled the town systematically. This fire discomfited the German troops-perhaps 1,000-who remained dug in there...
To cartoonists panting for a subject on which to exercise their talents, a Harvard man's map of the United States has always provided a ready field of endeavor -- that wonderful specimen of cartographic art which labels all land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines...