Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart to fight Japan, the Generalissimo had left that hopeless & thankless task to the "Young Marshal" who miserably failed to hold Jehol (TIME, March 13 et ante). Last week the New Deal was dealt ceremoniously on the General Staff Train which halted 90 miles short of Peiping at Paotingfu Station. Crestfallen "Young Marshal" Chang resigned his rulership of North China. His resignation was face-savingly "refused" by the Generalissimo until two days later. Meanwhile Young Chang was permitted to proclaim that his sole purpose was to die for China, battling the Japanese in person at the head of a Chinese...
...victor in man's fight against typhus fever. Surgeon Rolla Eugene Dyer, U.S. P. H. S., after letting rat fleas feed on his leg, last year produced a vaccine efficacious against the mild, flea-borne typhus which occurs along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (TIME, Nov. 7, et ante). Harvard's Professor Hans Zinsser has been developing a vaccine and serum against the louse-carried, virulent type of typhus which constantly threatens to invade the U. S. from Eastern Europe and Mexico. Last week Harvard reported that the Zinsser serum works, that Mexican health authorities are inoculating...
With Chancellor Adolf Hitler seeking control of the Reichstag by a campaign of unparalleled violence and bitterness (TIME, Feb. 13, et seq.) leading up to the General Election Sunday March 5, suddenly this week the Reichstag Building caught fire...
Among the most effective works exhibited was a still life Fétiche et Fleurs by Palmer C. Hayden, which won Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s $100 for excellence in painting. An appealing Head of a Girl in plaster by William E. Artis won another $100, the John Hope prize in sculpture...
...education (onetime regent of its University, her alma mater), as a progressive in politics (she took the stump in 1924 for the last "Fighting Bob'' La Follette), as a humanitarian writer with many a past and present protege (David Gordian, Anzia Yezierska, the late Margery Latimer Toomer et al.). Other books: Birth, Friendship Village, Bridal Pond, Portage, Wisconsin, and Other Essays...