Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House in a little over six months, including 200 house guests and 250 week-end guests at the Virginia camp. Wholesale savings on butter, eggs, bread, tradesmen said, could have been considerable. But the U. S. Government has no cause to object. Food eaten by all except official guests is paid for out of the President's private pocket...
...bullets indiscriminately among the Jews and ended by igniting the town. As at Hebron, where eight U. S. Rabbinical students were killed (TIME, Sept. 2), reports from Safed stressed such accusations as "pillage," "butchery," "rape." Most of the Jews involved were again claimed to have had "no weapons except their household furniture." The Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum plant at Safed was reported burnt out, gutted. Despatches estimated Jewish dead at 22, mentioned no Moslem casualties...
...Chronic Diseases in New York City and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week the recently resigned medical director of Montefiore, Dr. Ernst Philip Boas and his chief assistant published a meaty, precise book on the subject.* Special hospitals exist for insane and tuberculous chronics, but no hospitals, except at New York and Boston, for the vast number of those otherwise affected. The great plurality of chronics are grudgingly and inadequately maintained at general hospitals, homes for incurables, almshouses,† city infirmaries, homes...
Once a prime whaling centre, New England is now whale-conscious only when a stray carcass is washed ashore to decompose into a smelly blubbery mass. From San Pedro, Cal., a few independent whalers operate on a small scale. But except for some whaling boats that make South America their headquarters and a few English companies, Norway has a practical monopoly on the industry...
...Carlsbad, Czechoslovakia, last week, the Danish Grand Master gave neat proof of the efficacy of his method. In the International Grand Masters' Chess tournament, matching wits with all the great masters except two, World's Champion Dr. Alexander Alekhine and onetime World's Champion Emanuel Lasker, Nimzowitsch gained ten wins, ten draws, had only one loss. Earning 15 points he was proclaimed winner. In a dramatic two-week rally he had advanced from fifth place. Only on the next-to-last day of the four-week tournament did he achieve the lead...