Word: calme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter how calm he may appear, when a stutterer has difficulty getting a word out he is really suffering from a spasm. The spasm is a disturbance of the motor nerves that control speech. It may possibly be set off by expansion of the tiny blood vessels in the cerebral cortex where the speech control centres are located. Last summer experimenters at University of Michigan's laboratory of biolinguistics made 24 stutterers get down on their hands & knees, talk while crawling. In every case the stuttering was notably diminished, in some cases eliminated entirely-so long as the crawling...
...this development Japanese Army leaders said their troops would cross the Great Wall at "the first sign of disorder." Simultaneously Yin announced as the capital of his regime Tungchow, only twelve miles east of Peiping and a leading Chinese educational centre not far from Yenching University whose calm, clear-headed President John Leighton Stuart is now in Manhattan. Highly excited, Yenching's Chinese, American & European faculty leaders this week joined fiery Chinese Philosopher Hu Shih in a manifesto demanding that the Nanking Government "use the energies of the entire nation to maintain the territorial and administrative integrity of China...
...week's end leading Italians of all ranks, from Senators to journalists, were in a public frenzy of indignation. The calm Dictator, after tersely repeating his warning that to War from any quarter he will reply with War, received and fraternized with some 500 peasants in bucolic celebration of records they have made in colonizing reclaimed lands this year. Handing out cash prizes he exhorted the winners paternally: "Don't make mixed marriages. Marry girls of your own villages. Then when the great crisis in the life of the people comes you will not have family problems...
...Calm deliberation about the great problems of practical Peace-neutrality legislation, commercial entanglements, imperialism, large armaments, munition makers,-may prove of great value to those who participate in the meeting, and may even spread interest and a reasonable outlook toward these problems in the wider circle of the Harvard Community...
Social Credit. Forty-seven candidates were run, exclusively in the West, by the not-yet-national Social Credit Party of Alberta's new radiorating Premier William Aberhart, a great admirer of Father Coughlin, a restive disciple of the calm British originator of the Social Credit theory, Major Douglas, and a political bigot who makes his followers take vows to read nothing and listen to nothing uttered by anyone against either himself or Social Credit (TIME, Sept. 2 & 16). The Aberhart party, victorious in Alberta, offered to pay all Canadians $25 per month in credit if and when a Social...