Word: asian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...persons with temporary constipation, who are too impatient to wait for the bowel rhythm to re-establish itself, Dr. Aaron suggests certain mild laxatives. Unobjectionable are mineral oil, milk of magnesia, cascara sagrada. "Least objectionable" for habitual constipation is agar, a dried mucilaginous extract of East Asian seaweed, which produces a large bland bulk in the bowel. "Mineral waters, whether natural or artificial, should not be used. . . ." Dr. Aaron went on to advise readers to avoid any cathartic pills that contain aloe, aloin (both somewhat irritant drugs), or strychnine; also any laxative chocolates, candies, chewing gums that contain phenolphthalein...
...publication, Black Star is a photographic and literary agency formed last December by Ernest Mayer, refugee German-Jewish publisher. Black Star handles such foreign writers as Emil Ludwig and Paul Claudel as well as some 50 European, Asian, African photographers. The agency's name was selected in the hope that some day it might be represented merely by a quickly identifiable symbol...
...trying to be to them have indeed a chance for Democracy, though it may be their last. Either a Fascist or a Soviet Dictatorship-and it is not impossible, however unlikely, that one might arise-would swiftly reduce India to the status of Ethiopia or one of the Central Asian so-called "Soviet Republics" now exploited from Moscow and made to jump at the commands of Stalin. Last week, with the initial stage of Provincial Autonomy set to click into action in 1937, the provisional date for full coming into effect of the Indian-Federation was set forward from...
GENGHIS KHAN - Ralph Fox - Ear-court, Brace ($3). Story of the medieval warrior (real name: Temujin) who brought the Mongol Empire bloodily to birth. Author Fox, young Englishman whose hobby is central Asian history and archeology, claims that this is "the only book upon the subject in English based on a study of original sources," but admits he has depended entirely on translations...
...South China Sea to Hong Kong. Thus, in the first of six trial flights, Imperial Airways Ltd. sprouted a new branch from its main stem between London and Australia. Carrying passengers and mail, the new service will run twice a week, is significant because it brings the trans-Asian airline within 80 miles of Macao, now planned as the terminus of Pan American Airways transpacific route...