Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian incident. If he has thought of the effect on the great colonial powers were his tribesmen, savage, and untutored in modern military strategy, to defeat the well equipped, tactically superior legions of Rome. Does he not know that the white nations most powerful in Africa will look with deep concern on this native triumph? That prominent Britons will look askance at this hitherto unconsidered puissance which commands the Lake Tana and which may, by example, menace the British hegemony in Africa? Can he not realize that maintaining a strong and independent native African state and at the same time...
...manner: mild, cautious. His religion: Lutheran. His disposition: silent Norwegian determination. His habits : abstemious. His appearance: well-groomed. His instinct: righteous conservatism in everything except politics. Until two years ago he was a bank cashier in his native Appleton. Minn., a man who displayed his deep-seated ambition by being hardworking, meticulous, self-denying and an ardent Farmer-Laborite. Then Governor Olson made him State Securities Commissioner, later State Banking Commissioner. His appointment to the Senate last week gave him his cue, and he launched into the political theme song which fellow Senators may expect to hear whenever he speaks...
...popular book, as the Hell-Hole of Creation. Actually the high plateau on which Addis Ababa stands and which comprises about half the Empire is suited in climate to the taste of an ordinary U. S. citizen although the altitude is trying. Rushing rivers criss-cross the plateau with deep gorges. Transportation of fantastic difficulty is enhanced by unimaginable mud in the rainy season, but the obstacles of Nature on the plateau are in every sense susceptible of being overcome...
...silicosis may terminate fatally as long as 40 years after silica inhalations, the California Supreme Court last year declared that there is no time limit to bar a silicotic employe from bringing a damage suit against an employer. Industrial insurance companies immediately wanted to increase their rates. Operators of deep California gold mines, which are difficult to ventilate, would be obliged to pay $22.25 instead of the current $11 premium for every $100 they pay their men. Some mines of low-profit margin have already shut down. Others threaten to do so. Mineowners and miners, who face loss of employment...
Your wonderful pictures of a Caesarean section [TIME, Dec. 9 ] thrilled me greatly since I have had the same operation (with a local anesthetic). Everyone should look at these pictures with a deep reverence and respect for the skilled surgeons we now have who yearly save the lives of many mothers and babies, who otherwise would never have a chance...