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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...common cold, to remain at home until he feels better. Particularly for those traveling long distances, such infections can easily become serious en route to Cambridge. Students should realize that the responsibility for keeping well rests with them and not with their physicians. If they will cooperate, fewer cases of major sickness will result and the amount of valuable study time lost for Mid-Years can be materially reduced...
...court, he killed the prefect of Jassy. His biggest job came in 1933 when he plotted, but did not take part in, the assassination of Premier Ion Duca. Three of those who pulled their triggers at Premier Duca were among the dead 14 last week. Tried several times, incarcerated fewer times, Leader Codreanu's defense was invariably superpatriotism. Until recently Rumanian law prescribed no death penalty. Well might a Fascist leader, at a time when Fascism was fast engulfing Eastern Europe, look upon a jail sentence as a laughing matter. Fifteen years ago another much less publicized leader, Adolf...
...They drive more rapidly and travel farther than older drivers," says DeSilva about youth. "Having less experience and less responsibilities (there are fewer owners and less married men in the younger age group) they undoubtedly drive with less restraint and are more interested in getting places in a hurry," he continues...
Although the chances of college graduates as a whole to make good in the business world are becoming fewer, there is more chance for the exceptional man to rise to the top today than ever before, declared William M. Martin, Yale '28 and President of the New York Stock Exchange, in an interview last night at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...Other factors pulling down the 1938 death rate: 1) low maternal mortality, which now amounts to 4.4 per 1,000 live births, 15% less than 1937; 2) lower incidence of tuberculosis, which shows signs of declining for the first time to less than five deaths per 10,000; 3) fewer auto accidents, which show a 20% mortality decline over...