Word: although
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biggest handicap: although no General College student flunks out, 35% of them quit each year...
...Although the mission were too humiliated to know it, they did serve a purpose. Their presence in Rome was the occasion for a realistic suggestion from Tokyo: Japan, Italy, Britain and France ought to repay the bad faith of their erstwhile friends, Germany and Russia, by banding together to end the Hitler-Stalin plot for "Bolshevization of the world." These wooden words were put in the mouth of poor old Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, the Chinese ventriloquist for Japanese policy...
...tiny the entering wounds may seem. If he meets an abdominal wound, for instance, he must first cut off all jagged infected surface tissue. Without damaging important nerves, veins, arteries, he must then pull out the intestines "foot by foot," looking for bullet perforations, and stitching them up. Although he may find as many as eight or ten perforations, the entire operation should not take more than 20 minutes. If he neglects the exploration, his patient is almost certain to die from hemorrhage or peritonitis. (Patients suffering from hemorrhage should have an H marked on their foreheads.to insure prompt treatment...
...Finland halted preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games scheduled to be held at Helsingfors next summer, pondered their cancelation-just as the 1916 Olympics, scheduled for Berlin, were called off because of World War I. Although Germany was mum on the subject last week, sportsmen the world over took it for granted that the 1940 Winter Olympics were off. They had been awarded to Germany's Garmisch-Partenkirchen after Japan had chucked them, along with the summer Olympics, because of the "incident" in China...
Meanwhile, speculation and the illusion of prosperity may itself encourage an increase of consumption, giving business a genuine stimulus. And although Congress last summer rejected the idea of Capital Goods spending, the crisis had put into Franklin Roosevelt's hands the means of carrying it out in the name of preparedness. Gone was the Administration's peacetime notion of self-liquidating projects. Peace itself had been liquidated. Last week even Henry Morgenthau, who opposed public works spending, rehired Chicago's learned Jacob Viner, Princeton's Winfield William Riefler, No. 1 & 2 Treasury anti-spending brain trusters...