Word: helvetian
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...quite in the same spirit. The French would like to lay hands on Volpi as a Fascist war criminal. Better the discomforts of a $75-a-day suite in a Swiss hotel than that! Lausanne might seem somewhat provincial after Rome. But better last in a little Helvetian city than priority rating on a list of war criminals in Rome or Paris...
...study of concentrates from monazite sand, believed they had two-millionths of a gram of eka-iodine in the final concentrate. They named it alabamine. Dr. Allison did not isolate it in pure form, nor were other chemists able to confirm his magneto-optic suspicion. The anglo-helvetian stars, however, may merely have fallen on alabamine...
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