Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Churchill: "It was only . . . when all the [German] preparations being made on the coasts of France and Holland could be examined in detail . . . that we knew how grave had been the peril. . . . Only just in time did the Allied armies blast the viper in his nest. Otherwise the autumn of 1944 . . . might well have seen London as shattered as Berlin...
...know the South may find the picture not wholly convincing. Yet there is far more to be grateful for than to forgive, notably the work of Zachary Scott; of Jean Renoir, who wrote as well as directed it (the film is based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand, by George Sessions Perry); and of Photographer Lucien Andriot...
...Vapors. While Dr. Chang does not deny the existence of microbes, he operates on the basis of chi (vapors)-spring, summer, autumn and winter vapors which may enter the body and produce changes. A stomachache is often merely too much chi in the belly. For this Dr. Chang occasionally prescribes sneezing powder which releases the pressure pain from the stomach. The theory is the same as lifting the lid of a spouting tea kettle to release steam. After Western laxatives had failed to relieve a certain Cabinet member, Dr. Chang prescribed a herb to "heat the vapor of the spleen...
...March 1928 his chance at the Senate came. He was appointed to fill a vacancy and was elected the following autumn. In the traditionally Republican state of Michigan, Vandenberg has never had much trouble getting reelected, although in the New Deal landslide of 1934 he squeaked through largely because of a Democratic split. Except for California's ailing Hiram Johnson and Kansas' aging Arthur Capper, he is now the ranking Republican in the Senate...
Dirt and Starvation. Like her three sisters (one, Eleanor, used to be Warden of Vassar), tall, vigorous Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata. The British did not like skirts on this job. So she set off for ruined Sperkheios Valley. There she found that Captain Robert Mayers of the U.S. Army had already set up three hospitals while the Germans were still theoretically in possession (TIME, Jan. 29). But the people...