Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concern in Rensselaer. In 1904 he persuaded the company to start making and marketing acetyl salicylic acid tablets, which were well known in Europe. In 1913 the plant was purchased by Friedrich Bayer, manufacturing chemist from Germany. During the War Bayer Aspirin Co. was seized by the Government as alien property, sold to Sterling Products Inc. Sterling took Bayer Co. into Drug, Inc., took it out again when Drug was resolved into its component parts last summer (TIME, July 10). But throughout all these adventures in corporate control, Dr. von Salis continued to make aspirin...
...England connotations existed as a source of minor irritation to the mellow inhabitants of the Old South. Now Harry Burke, chairman of the Alexandria Park and Planning Commission, proposes to change the name to Monree Street, as he feels that "The teachings of Harvard University always have been alien to Virginia traditions," and he desires to honor the name of a famous Virginian. But Harvard is quickly defended by a surviving Barbara Frietchle, who in a letter of strong opposition to Mr. Burke signs herself "Damned Yankee and Proud Of It." A petition of 26 dwellers on the street...
...Hall awaits the outcome with the deepest suspense. This quarrel is regarded as the barometer of Harvard's fortunes outside of New England, and may result in crossing off much geographical cross-section if Harvard succumbs to oblivion in Virginia. But we feel that if Harvard's teachings are alien to Virginia traditions something should be done about it right away. It is an unnatural state of affairs...
...Yours is a grave offense, Frohwein." said the Nazi judge. "You have placed an alien law, namely the Talmud, above German law. Since this is a first offense, I sentence you to two months' imprisonment...
...which we do not understand or evaluate. More pretentious, and less satisfying, is a homily on the institution of marriage by Andre Maurois. M. Maurois fights hard to preserve his urbanity, but through it all glitters that most distressing of phenomena, the putter-to-rights, who is just as alien an element in magazines as he is in the drama, where he contents himself with engineering the situation that brings everything off. He is a clumsy device on the stage; he is clumsier, because more explicit, in the written homily...