Word: fruitful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...questions called an intelligence test, lump the answers together as one product and weigh it, labeling the weight the I. Q. But one school of psychologists, believing the I. Q. is too crude a measure (like lumping apples, oranges and bananas all together and calling them fruit), has been trying to break up the mind into its separate parts. Last week the most eminent investigator in this field reported some significant findings...
Assassinated. Dr. Herman Chanen Liu U. S.-educated president of U. S.-endowed Shanghai University; by unidentified gunmen; in the streets of Shanghai. Although he received many a threatening note, a basket filled with arsenic-sprayed fruit, Dr. Liu had continued to side with his fellow-Chinese and against Japan, ignored friends' advice that he quit Shanghai...
...Cabinet members were received back into the Orthodox Church, the election was held, three candidates for Patriarch selected. Regent Prince Paul chose a Patriarch-Gabriel, Metropolitan of Montenegro, 57, stanch patriot, Wartime Red Cross worker, Montenegrin leader in the post-War formation of Yugoslavia. Patriarch Gabriel will enjoy the fruit of the Church's victory by agreement-the Government must consult him next time it plans any negotiations with the Vatican...
Cabbage & Compote. In Vienna last week, first intimate details of Chancellor Schuschnigg's recent parley with Chancellor Hitler at Berchtesgaden (TIME, Feb. 28) became known. During lunch Vegetarian Hitler ate cooked red cabbage as his pièce de résistance, consumed a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Schuschnigg and the others consumed cold lobster and "fresh asparagus grown under sun lamps," the Germans said. The talk at luncheon, following the two Chancellors' private conference and agreement, was of horse breeding mainly. The Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German...
Snip, snip, he pruned away at fruit trees for something like an hour and a half, then returned to Vienna refreshed about the time Chamberlain and Ribbentrop were "joining the ladies" in London. The German blood of this Nazi is a good deal colder than the blood of Hitler. In stolid fashion he waited around. After Schuschnigg's broadcast "good-by," Seyss-Inquart kept going on the air by electrical transcription every half-hour or so, asking Austrians not to resist the invading German Army, saying the troops of the Führer would bring "happiness...