Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pack. William John ("Torchy'') Peden, 27, a rangy Canadian with a flaming mop above his scarlet jersey, was the tallest, heaviest (216 lb.) rider in the race. Since starting in 1928 he had entered 37 six-day races, won 17. Alfred Letourner, teamed with Peden this autumn for the first time, is an excitable little Frenchman who wolfs six thick mutton chops at a swoop. His oldtime partner was now his opponent: Belgian Gerard Debaets, a clown who enlivens dull hours of the grind by sailing around the track with a parasol, a bustle or false whiskers...
Before club-footed little Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels became Adolf Hitler's Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, he used to say that nothing was so good for a hostile editor as "one litre of castor oil." Lately Minister Goebbels' methods have grown less rudimentary. Last autumn, he "consecrated"' the German Press to Nazi service with a law that made it a crime to practice journalism in Germany except as a member of a nation-wide closed shop. Last week, Nazi control of the Press went one step further when it was announced that Germany...
...made himself repeatedly dangerous to society should be treated with such consideration. Does painless penalism pay as large returns as the idealists would like us to believe? Anyone reading in the newspapers of football games in which notorious gangsters and murderers play of sunny autumn afternoons, may well be led to wonder. Of course, if there is a chance that the law-breaker will reform, once shown the error of his ways, the state ought spare nothing to show them to him. But in a country where a large portion of crime is committed by mental defectives, repeaters, and good...
Like an army besieged is the human body. Around it lie fortifications of epidermis. Microbic attackers which penetrate this wall are pounced on by battalions of defenders in the blood and lymph. But there is one gap opening on a shortcut to General Headquarters (the brain). To the autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences at Cambridge. Mass, last week (see p. 50) Dr. Simon Flexner, director of Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, reported that Institute researchers confirmed the widely accepted theory that this pathway is traveled by one of mankind's deadliest enemies...
...There is oil in Texas, and a lot of it. And it seems as certain as anything can be in prospecting business that somewhere beneath the ranch's 1,250,000 acres lies oil. For years one company and another has been reported dickering for oil rights. This autumn Humble Oil & Refining Co., subsidiary of Standard of New Jersey, closed the deal. In exchange for a low rental on drilling rights (13? an acre) Humble takes over the ranch's en tire funded debt (some $3,000,000) on a 20-year note, the interest at 5% payable...