Word: haved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Insull of Chicago, potent public utilitarian, in an address before several hundred U. S. reserve officers, traced the trail to inevitable war. Said he: "I will tell you that it is highly possible for war to come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near...
Under the special definition and with the leadership of Dr. Frederick Madison Allen, 50, who as a Rockefeller Institute man introduced fasting or undernutrition as a treatment of diabetes, a new kind of specializing hospital is developing in the U. S.-physiatric hospitals. All general hospitals of course treat the...
Fog off Nova Scotia last week made Captain David William Bone of the Anchor liner Transylvania uncertain of his bearings as he approached Nantucket, en route from Glasgow to Manhattan. He should have been over the continental shelf, the underwater plateau which extends 150 miles seaward from the North American...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others...
On April 2, 1725, in Venice, was born Giacomo Giralamo Casanova, possibly a bastard, probably a most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's...