Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Charles Albert Calmette (born 1863, at Nice). He began to practice medicine in Paris as their discoveries and technique were beginning to spread. He was then 23 and amenable to military service, like every young Frenchman after the Franco-German war (1870-71). He went into the French navy, as a doctor. Then he was posted with French Colonial troops in Indo-China, where he founded the Pasteur Institute of Saïgon. Later he was to found an anti-tuberculosis dispensary at Lille, in honor of Pierre Paul Émile Roux, present director of the Pasteur Institute of Paris...
...Calmette-Guérin vaccine that Manhattan's Dr. Park referred last week. The U. S. profession has been skeptical of its value, although Drs. Calmette and Guérin have tested it with apparent success on more than 100,000 French infants. Rumanian, German, and English experience have confirmed the discoverers' assertions and experience. Because of his ascendancy in U. S. bacteriology, Dr. Park's approbation, although limited, made the Calmette-Guérin vaccine a U. S. therapeutic currency...
...immense power in the life of the province. Premier Louis, cardinal's nephew, was destined from the first for a public career. Premier since 1920, he it was who framed the widely discussed, widely imitated (by other Canadian provinces) Quebec liquor law. Though he thinks and speaks habitually in French, his English is forceful and fluent. After the first conference between paperman and premiers, President Graustein spoke to reporters...
...when the last Prussian troops marched out of Paris, crowds of bourgeois housewives expectorated lustily. Great bonfires of straw were burned to "purify" the Place de la Concorde. From German Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle) and Coblenz the last Belgian and French troops marched out last week. There were bonfires on the Rhine hillsides, but no expectoration. Rhinelanders waited until the last troop trains had gone, then young folk danced in rain wet streets, old folk breathed an earnest Gott Sei Dank! The Second Zone of Allied Occupation was free...
...democracy. They give every evidence of enjoying the customary routine of industrious labor. Their conduct is satisfactory and has given no offence to the Vagabond. Casual inquiry into their lunch pails reveals little violation of the law, while their literature so far as the Vagabond's knowledge of reading French and Latin goes, is at present no threat to undergraduate morals...