Word: austria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heretofore, only form of birth control which the Roman Catholic Church permitted was continence. Lately Professors Kyusaku Ogino (Japan) and Herman Knaus (Austria) propounded a theory that a woman can be impregnated only during eight days of her cycle, that during the remaining 19 to 24 days she is not apt to conceive. This system of intermittent continence fits perfectly with the word of God, say Catholic authorities. Sixty thousand copies of a single exposition of the Ogino-Knaus rhythm theory and rules have been sold. The originators say that their system is more than 90% positive if their rules...
Italy and Austria: In graceful tribute to the success of Foreign Minister Laval and Premier Mussolini in their" recent Rome parley (TIME, Jan. 14, 21) Britain last week "cordially welcomed" the declaration of France and Italy that they mean "to collaborate," and agreed that Britain, France and Italy shall "consult together if the independence and integrity of Austria are menaced...
...portrait of Anne of Austria by Rubens, and a triptych, St. Lawrence Enthroned by Filippo Lippi, to the Metropolitan Museum...
...graduate of Edinburgh University who has long been active in the Scotch and British labor movement. Miss Lee is at present touring the country under the auspices of the League for Industrial Democracy. She has traveled extensively in Germany, Austria, Spain, America and Soviet Russia. During the last few months she has been in close contact with developments in Nazi Germany and has been active in aiding the victims of the Hitler regime...
...virtual dictatorship under the leadership of one-eyed, Hitler-lipped Kimon Gueorguieff whose favorite cry was "Our government is neither Right nor Left, but STRAIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE" (TIME, June 4). First reports were that this Gueorguieff dictatorship had the full approval of Little Tsar Boris. But royalists in Austria and Hungary, trying hard to recoup their own fortunes through the restoration of downy-lipped Archduke Otto, learned almost immediately that Boris was practically a prisoner of the dictatorship, that the real dictator was not Through-the-Middle-Man Gueorguieff but a sly Col. Damyam Veltcheff. Col. Veltcheff...