Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summer when the leader of the opposition, Stefan Raditch, was assassinated on the floor of the House (TiME, July 2). Apparently M. Poincaré recommended the kill-or-cure panacea known as a military dictatorship. King Alexander, assured of French backing, went home and sprang his coup royal, with the aid of Jugoslavia's secret military organization, "The White Hand," and its somewhat sinister leader, General Petar Zivkovitch...
When Austria threatened Serbia (now part of Jugoslavia) on account of the assassination, young Regent Alexander sought and received the aid of Tsar Nicholas II, at whose father's court he had been a page. As the Great Powers mobilized (for their various and several reasons), and as the World War burst upon Europe, the wisdom of M. Pashitch's course was seriously in doubt. He lived to see it supremely vindicated, from the Serbian standpoint; for the peace treaties gave to Serbia additional territories of 59,400 square miles, including huge slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria...
...young men grew older. At length, one of them grew quite elderly. Last week, the Good Young Man, 66, went to the aid of the Rich Young Man, 55, in a battle in which both Riches and Goodness were of superlative importance...
...Phillips Brooks House, however, will continue its policy of granting freely the use of its rooms, financial aid, and advice to any student religious group which may desire such assistance. But membership in the Cabinet will be restricted to the actual leaders of Brooks House activities...
Artificial earthquakes will be produced in this region by employing dynamite blasts. The resulting vibrations, recorded on the seismograph, will aid in the possible discovery of submarine oil fields which are believed to be located in that region...