Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid as much as $480 for their passage; distraught women; doctors and lawyers who had lost their practices; men who had been in concentration camps. There were 500 women on board. There was Max Loewe...
...before she was turned over to the Royal Navy. Aboard was an unusually large company-103 men. Besides her regular crew of 53 there were civilian technicians, civilian Admiralty officials, a local river pilot and two waiters brought out from a Liverpool catering establishment to help feed the added group. The waiters had each been asked if they minded taking a dive. Both said they did not. Neither the two waiters nor 97 of the rest came out of the Thetis alive...
...similar fire rituals. Broadcast to them all, from the World's Fair, went a speech on "Youth in Tomorrow's World," by Attorney General Frank Murphy, a devout Roman Catholic who is no more averse to helping the Y. M. C. A. than to endorsing the Oxford Group (see p. 54). All this smoke, fire and warm sentiment celebrated the Y. M. C. A.'s 95th anniversary...
...turn out about 155,000 graduates (a few more than last year), only slightly damaged by war scares and goldfish gulping. But observers who wanted to evaluate contemporary U. S. higher education turned their eyes not on these untried graduates but on the college presidents themselves (for a representative group, see adjacent columns...
...flight physicians, its swift conveyor-belt system in which invalids, nameless but numbered, are shunted from consultants to specialists to surgeons, has long been known as the Supreme Court of condemned patients. To thousands of forward-looking physicians, the 50-year-old Clinic, which long ago initiated group practice and dispensed with family doctors, stands as a model for medical practice of the future. And to admiring Europeans the Mayo Clinic is as peculiar a contribution of U. S. culture as the Ford factory or the Heinz pickle works...