Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter a free-lance deep-sea diver and experimenter named Max Nohl had himself lowered 420 ft. to the bottom of Lake Michigan, thus making the world's deepest dive to date in a diving suit (TIME, Dec. 13).* In so doing, Max Nohl conclusively showed the value of a helium-oxygen mixture for deep diving. Helium is a light gas, requires little effort to inhale. It also seems to forestall that bugbear of divers, "the bends" (gas bubbles in the blood...
...Sorrowful Mother, with special Stations of the Cross and prayers of his own compilation. Last winter Father Keane's novena began getting publicity when 16,500 people attended it every Friday, each making nine devotions in succession to the Virgin, in hope of spiritual or material reward (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week, 50,000 Catholics were thronging the church on Fridays and novenas were being installed in churches throughout the U. S. as fast as the Servites-whose permission, willingly granted, had to be asked before a church could adopt the ritual-were able to get around...
SCHUMANN : CONCERTO IN D MINOR FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting, with Yehudi Menuhin; Victor: 7 sides). The famed "lost" Schumann concerto confirms impressions of its U. S. premiere (TIME, Dec. 5). Its awkwardness causes even able Violinist Menuhin to wrestle...
Died. Donald Jolley Foss, 54, Wooster, Ohio, brush manufacturer; in Detroit. In a letter to TIME (Dec. 31, 1934), Mr. Foss started a readers' controversy by calling burial expenditures "heathenishly extravagant," advocated a 100% tax on them. Last week, under the terms of his will, the remains of Donald Foss were cremated, the ashes scattered on his farm with no extravagant monument to mark them...
...Jenks. running for his first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee Roy an edge of 17 votes, which a third upped to 24. When Mr. Jenks claimed that 34 Jenks ballots cast in the town...