Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fall of Turkey's Premier. At the Nyon Conference recently myopic Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras was cajoled by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff into agreeing that British and French ships assigned to patrol the seas around Turkey for "pirates" (TIME, Sept. 27) should be permitted to base their operations in Turkish ports. Next thing Dr. Aras knew Turkey had failed at Geneva, even with the aid of Comrade Litvinoff, to be re-elected to the League Council by the Assembly...
Helen Wills began playing tennis during the War when her father, a Berkeley, Calif, physician, went to a French base hospital and left his 15-ounce racquet behind him. A pigtailed, direct little girl, she took it for granted from the start that winning was synonymous with trying. She did not revise that assumption until she was 16 and found herself facing the great Moila Bjurstedt Mallory in the final for the U. S. Singles Championship at Forest Hills. Hard-driving Mrs. Mallory won in straight sets. Next year Helen Wills played in all the major preliminary tournaments...
Steamer, railroad, and motor car will carry the party to the town of Mandalay in Northern Burma, which will serve as a base of field operations. Here, with the cooperation of the Burma Division of the Geological Survey of India, the expedition will search the gravels along the banks of the Irrawaddi River for fossils of prehistoric man and animals. Stone Age tools have already been uncovered in this region...
Last fortnight Dr. Harold Elmer Anthony, expedition leader and curator of mammals at the American Museum, and a companion were hoisted up the difficult sandstone ledges by five experienced guides. After one night Dr. Anthony's companion came down - alone - to the base camp on the saddle with two "leaf-eared mice" which he had caught in traps. These turned out to be similar to other leaf-eared mice inhabiting the region. Hunters and natives winked and snickered around the campfire, hinted that where scientists could go animals could go. George Borup Andrews, son of famed Explorer Roy Chapman...
...equipment is still in New York. Any serious attempt to discover the truth would have revealed that the supplies were shipped within a week after, and that it was impossible to ship them earlier. Under what "false pretenses" was the money collected" Mr. Hart and Mr. Curtiss apparently base their charge that the solicitors deliberately deceived the students on the grounds that the supplies were used "to aid Moscow in Harlem." It is needless to point out that logically there is no connection between the use of the money and the intentions of the collectors three months before. Where...