Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...babies under six months catch measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria or infantile paralysis. Why, asked Drs. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. & F. T. Chu of Harvard's pediatrics department...
...saddle last week Old Paul's Junker friends seemed doomed. Agriculture was only half of Dr. Hugenberg's Ministry. Economics, the other half. Chancellor Hitler split off last week and placed in charge of a steady-going German insurance tycoon, Dr. Kurt Schmitt. There was, however, a catch. Dr. Schmitt, a man of no political prestige, will have as his Undersecretary and mentor famed Gottfried Feder, the "Nazi Ideologist," inventor of the Party's distinction between two kinds of capital: raffendes or "grasping loan capital" and schaffendes or "creative industrial capital." In practice this distinction means that...
...attaches and their families. Less than a week before Secretary of Commerce Roper had cabled most of the Department's European representatives to hand in their resignations, close their offices by June 30. when the fiscal year ends. If they wanted a free ride home they had to catch the George Washington on June 22. For reasons of economy. Herbert Hoover's commercial foreign legion was being disbanded...
...Dragon still rising at Hankow, the Bund and parts of the French and Japanese concessions were already a foot deep in water. Afraid that even Nanking the capital, only 200 miles from the sea, might be flooded, the Government sent out soldiers who rounded up every coolie they could catch, prodded them out to the Yangtze's brim, kept them working day and night under bayonet guard, piling up dirt and still more dirt...
...putting out into Great South Bay to catch weakfish, with his son Robert. Actor Victor Moore (Of Thee I Sing's Vice President Alexander Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless...