Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When invective is the ammunition, Italy is quick to fire. The press accused Britain of breaking explicit agreements not to use chemical warfare. The dropping of the phosphorus calling cards was the signal, said Corriere della Sera of Milan, "of a new method of offensive to which fit reply must be given." Benito Mussolini's Popolo d'ltalia echoed ominously with a new version of the Mosaic law: "Two eyes for one, two teeth for one, and so on until they cry, 'Enough...
...leading authority on typhus, the ancient plague which is now known to be virus-borne by human lice and rat fleas. Five years ago, in Rats, Lice and History, he traced with surprising charm the red-brown spots of typhus across world history. This year he announced a method for mass production of a typhus vaccine...
...steels from corsets, for paring customers' corns. They usually charged 25? an operation, raised howls of pain from their victims. One day, while lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
Conference leaders faced with the fact that America's birth rate is on the decline agreed that the decline must be stopped if America wishes to keep her position as an imperialistic power. Exports were at odds as to the best method of increasing America's birthrate. Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, foresees the decline of civilization through fostering propagation of the lower classes, while Thomas V. Moore of Catholic University asserted that moronity has a biological trend to climinate itself. The rest of the summer was, like the weather, alternately hot and cold...
Conference leaders faced with the fact that America's birth rate is on the decline agreed that the decline must be stopped if America wishes to keep her position as an imperialistic power. Exports were at odds as to the best method of increasing America's birthrate. Earnest A. Hooton, Professor of Anthropology, foresees the decline of civilization through fostering propagation of the lower classes, while Thomas V. Moore of Catholic University asserted that moronity has a biological trend to climinate itself. The rest of the summer was, like the weather, alternately hot and cold...