Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pact dates from the "Save-France Cabinet" formed after the Stavisky bloodshed by beloved onetime President Gaston ("Papa Gastounet") Doumergue. Suddenly recalled by duty from retirement to the dirty job of Premier, "Papa" Doumergue chose as his Foreign Minister, venerable Louis Barthou, who proceeded to surprise all Europe by showing even more energy than such young sprigs as Anthony Eden...
...seventeen - hundred children whom Dr. Rothney chose as subjects entered school in 1922 at the approximate age of six, graduating in June 1934. In other words they have been "seeking their own way in the world" for a scant year and a half, yet Dr. Rothney asserts confidently that their records up to the present time vindicate his theory. Just why success in life should depend on a boy's employment or non-employment within two years of graduating from high school, Dr. Rothney did not bother to explain...
...requirements that it founded a Council on Medical Education & Hospitals, installed the late Dr. Nathan Porter Colwell as secretary. That year Dr. Colwell went to the Carnegie Foundation, asked that a lay survey of the nation's medical schools be made and its findings published. The Carnegie Foundation chose for the job a brilliant young educator named Abraham Flexner, who had ceased teaching in Louisville high schools to earn a Harvard M. A. With Dr. Colwell, Abraham Flexner visited U. S. medical schools, U. S. clinics, studied the by-laws of the state medical boards which licensed new practitioners...
...TIME'S and its sections began with National Affairs and ended with Books. But Cavalcade's editors chose a casual way of commenting on the parallel. From a letter from young Randolph Churchill advising them not to "be afraid of being accused of copying the big things in TIME," a footnote was laconically dropped: "This is a newsmagazine published in the United States. . . ." "Accurate, Brisk, Complete," Cavalcade regretted that its first issue was caught between two reigns, thus requiring an eight page take-out on the death of George V, the ascension of Edward VIII. Alan Cameron...
...reacted differently when talkies arrived. While Chaplin, with the egoism permissible to genius, defied the new medium, Lloyd conscientiously set out to adapt himself to it. His method was cautious: while retaining the outlines of the comic character with which his admirers had been pleased in silent pictures, he chose stories which depended less exclusively on the efforts of the star, placed part of the burden of getting laughs on the other members of the cast. The Milky Way, his fifth talking picture, is to date the most successful demonstration of this method. It is an entirely unsophisticated and uproariously...