Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whoever wrote the story of Pope Pius' death (TIME, Feb. 20) has fathered a moving piece of writing. If the next Pope is seen to compromise with totalitarianism, the deathbed scene of Pius XI will indeed seem to be taken from a new Götterdämmerung ; starring the vestiges of freedom still clinging to Europe...
Recent issues of The New Yorker have devoted quite a little space to a story, which they relate in seeming earnestness, contending that Herr Hitler was killed about four or five years ago and that his place has been taken by a double or doubles since his death...
Naturally this shift was not accomplished without strife in the Army. No secret in Washington is the fact that ever since able little Oscar Westover crashed to his death last year (TIME, Oct. 3), his successor has had to wage a friendly struggle with Chief of Staff Malin Craig...
...offer us peace you will find generous Spanish hearts. If you continue to make war against us and against yourselves you will meet opposition worthy of the mettle of our combatants, strong and implacable as the steel of our bayonets. Either peace for Spain or a fight to the death! We are ready for either. We are independent and free Spaniards. We have not on our conscience the responsibility for the destruction of our country...
...prevent the spread of tuberculosis by warning the population with posters: DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE KISSED; DO NOT KISS AN OTHER'S HAND. Officials entrusted with putting the admonition into effect had a job on their hands. Although the incidence of Latvian tuberculosis is high (tubercular death rate in the capital, Riga, is 120 per 100,000), the incidence of Latvian hand-kissing is much higher...