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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Etonians use relatively little slang, get most of it from Latin. Some Etonisms: bumble (small beer with raisins), furk (an illegal football kick), lush (sweets), nant (a swimmer), pec (money-from pe-cunia), Pop (famed Eton society, from popina, a cookshop, where meetings were originally held), sock...
With his law of similars, and his minuscule doses, homeopaths claim that Hahnemann anticipated the principle of vaccination. Some of his remedies, such as snake venom for control of hemorrhage, are still in use...
...point: that the U. S. should speedily prepare its defenses. Even World Peaceways joined the cry. Proclaimed World Peaceways' Spokesman J. Max Weis: "This is no time to sit around and pray. God gave us our faculties and for God's sake, get busy and use them...
...Rose-colored spectacle has much more varied costumes, provides snatches of old tunes, glimpses of past gaiety. By pairing up Waterlulu Eleanor Holm with handsome Swimmer Buster Crabbe, instead of Aqua-caveman Johnny Weissmuller, Rose added oomph to their big aquatic waltz. The water scenes gain from the use of fountains and a "curtain" of shimmering spray...
...industrials eight points to 122.43. Export and war-baby stocks were not the only casualties. Fear spread that closing of European markets would depress U. S. income, especially of farmers, that any subsequent national defense boom would develop at the expense of general consumer purchasing power & freedom to use it. Down sharply for the week were consumer-goods stocks like Chrysler (19⅜ points to 62⅛), General Foods (7 points to 41), Schenley (4⅜ points...