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Word: asia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Discovered at the Harvard Medical School, the vaccine will be available to all nations immediately, it was revealed. The disease, which has been a deadly plague for centuries in Europe and Asia, has a mortality rate of 60% in Europe and 30% in America during epidemics. The discovery is especially pertinent now since typhus is a major medical worry in the present European war. Nearly 7,000,000 cases were reported in Russia in the years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MASS PRODUCTION METHOD FOR TYPHUS VACCINE REVEALED | 1/12/1940 | See Source »

...from 1937 to 1939, he is now the most popular statesman in Japan and probably the only Japanese with enough astuteness and courage to play Mussolini to Hirohito's Vittorio Emanuele. It was he who invented the famous, mystical but so far meaningless slogan: New Order in East Asia. He may find accomplishing it not only New but Large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Large Order | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...Kansu, China's most northwestern province, is situated the sizable city of Lanchow, for centuries China's gateway to Central Asia and beyond. Also through this city the Tartar, Turk, Hun, Mongol, Buddhist and Christian first entered the broad, populous Chinese basin below the Great Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Gateway Gunned | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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