Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...announced that his European Food Distribution Commission had asked Great Britain and Germany to consent to U. S. aid. Said he: "There are 18,000,000 persons [in Belgium, The Netherlands, Poland, Norway] who are going to die unless food is gotten to them at once. There is no use mincing words...
Most of all, the White Committee wanted to turn sympathy for Britain into effective action, to overcome the greatest of aid to dictators - delay, and in Editor White's mind that was to test within the U. S. itself the strength of democratic sentiment, making use of democratic procedures to aid an endangered democracy...
...famed Polish cavalry threw itself into the path of the German mechanized columns, and was swept out of the way like rubbish. But hard-boiled military men, especially the Germans, knew that cavalry was still a long way from being scrap-heaped. The Poles' mistake had been to use cavalry as striking forces rather than as screens and feelers. The Germans, no slaves to military tradition, used cavalry in the Lowlands and France, reportedly had a ratio of one horse to every three...
...unions, William Green cries that he is being crucified. His alibi: that the Federation lacks disciplinary power over its autonomous international unions, can wield the big stick only over the Federal unions directly affiliated with it. Last week Mr. Green had a chance to use his stick...
...trench mouth, or Vincent's angina. No laughing matter, trench mouth is a painful, sometimes fatal disease, spread by relatives of the syphilis spirochete, which first invade the gums, may later migrate to tonsils, salivary glands and lungs. Trench mouth is most prevalent in summertime when campers use common utensils and cups. To kill the trench mouth spirochete, doctors usually swab their patients' swollen gums with hydrogen peroxide, silver salts or arsphenamine, prescribe mouthwashes of sodium perborate. But such treatment usually lasts for many weeks...