Word: middlesex
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sulfapyridine, one of the 1,000 relatives of sulfanilamide, acts on all 32 types of pneumonia. First used in England last year by Pathologist Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby of London's Middlesex Hospital, the drug was given a seven-month workout by conservative experimenters in hospitals all over...
Most military photographs that cross the sea from Germany represent death-dealers-heavier bombs, bigger Berthas, faster Heinkels. Most military pictures that cross from France and Britain represent life-savers-slicker gas masks, thicker walls, deeper holes. Last week, straight from a Hounslow, Middlesex, firm with the reassuring name of Concrete, Ltd., came some examples of British ARP (Air Raid Precautions) art which would gladden the heart of any wisely defensive ostrich...
...that fails properly to support its public schools may be fined an amount twice its biggest annual school expenditure. Recently Woburn's Mayor William E. Kane cut the schools' allowance. Woburn's teachers went unpaid. Thereupon they complained to the State Attorney General. Fortnight ago a Middlesex County grand jury solemnly indicted the City of Woburn, Inc. for school nonsupport. This week the town goes on trial. If it is convicted Woburn taxpayers may be fined...
...which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress" with social heaven. His real genius lay in his power of blunt statement -a talent that would have taken him far in journalism today. "An acre in Middlesex," said he, "is better than a principality in Utopia...
...team will be handicapped this year in its jumping practice as their former practice jump at Middlesex school blew down in the hurricane last September...