Word: drawned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full chapter in the history of Japan. During all that time the Pacific Ocean, so illimitable then to us, has been growing more narrow daily. The East and the West, which stood aloof without a thing in common except their common humanity, have been by that wonderful thread drawn closer and closer together, until today we stand shoulder to shoulder as friends and allies, defying the power of the force of evil to destroy that splendid heritage which we are agreed to share as common heirs...
...Lansing-Ishii agreement, said to have been drawn up by Viscount Ishii and President Wilson in 1917, was to affirm the principle of the Open Door in China. A paragraph, however, recognized Japan's "paramount interest"?a part which led the Japanese to suppose erroneously that the U. S. was intent upon abandoning her interest in the Far East...
...abnormal conditions for which physicians are called include increased secretion from the gland, lessened secretion and abnormal growths. In the case of lessened secretion physicians treat the condition by giving small doses of iodin during youth or during periods such as pregnancy when the gland may be heavily drawn on; also by the giving of doses of thyroid extract or of thyroxin. Dr. Crile pointed out that iodin must be given with great caution to grown persons who may have a tendency to thyroid tumor...
...long been known that there was abundant water underlying the Sahara Desert, for artesian wells sunk at many points in the great waste, both by the French authorities and by natives, have invariably proved productive. Now, marine life has been found in water drawn from some of these wells-small crabs, fish and shellfish. They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that...
...rumpus apparently subsided, but now, if prominent Clark alumni in the eastern States have their way, Dr. Atwood will be removed from the Presidency. They have drawn up resolutions asserting that...