Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare in the U. S.. but widespread in Europe and Asia, anthrax is highly fatal, infectious disease conveyed to man by Bacillus anthracis, which infects sheep and cattle. Germs usually enter the body through infected meat, hair, and hides, produce abscesses, swellings, even gangrene and peritonitis...
Selling even better than lead soldiers in German toy shops last week was a Nazified parchesi called Juden Raus (Out With the Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews...
...small-brained . . . man-apes of South Africa," observed Dr. Gregory, "now add their mute testimony that man, like his less ambitious cousins, the modern anthropoid apes, is a descendant of the late Tertiary dryopethicine ape stock of Europe, Asia, and Africa." In Dr. Gregory's opinion, indubitable apes evolved into indubitable humans during a profound structural upheaval compassed within the past ten or twelve million years...
...Premier Prince Konoye blandly announced that Japan sought no territory (that could be left to her puppets), no indemnity (that probably could not be collected from scorched China), no economic monopoly in China, was willing to respect the interests of third powers who "grasp the meaning of the New Asia...
...East, Christianity exercises an influence out of all proportion to its numbers. Of three men who are rated by many as Asia's most influential leaders- China's Philosopher-poet Dr. Hu Shih (now Ambassador to the U. S.), India's Mahatma Gandhi, Japan's Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa-only the last is a Christian. Dr. Kagawa, soft-faced, almost blind "Greatest Christian" of Japan, preaches economic and moralistic doctrines which today are completely at variance with those of Japan's rulers. Like other Japanese Christians, he has been largely silenced during the war in China...