Word: henry
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago a young French doctor, Henri Vadon, was assisting at an operation. An inadvertent movement of the patient drove deep into his hand the point of a syringe known to contain deadly bacilli. Immediate treatment would probably have saved him, but he chose to finish the operation without attending to himself. As a result his arm became infected and had to be amputated last week. "For his devotion to duty under exceptional circumstances" the French Government caused Dr. Vadon to be decorated with the cordon of the Legion of Honor, on the day after his arm was amputated...
...Juvissy, France, little Gabrielle Renaudot, a spindling girl with legs like matches, hempen ringlets and immense brown eyes peering from the wan mask of her face, would pause, with furtive admiration, to watch the famed astronomer meditating in his kitchen-garden. Her mother, Maria Latini, the original of Henri Regnault's famed painting, Salome, was a friend of Flammarion's. When she died, little Gabrielle went to the great man for advice and counsel. Was she fond of Science ? That was what he wanted to know. Ah, she would give her life for Science. He made...
...Geneva met a commission of the League of Nations to draw up rules of procedure for an Institute of Intellectual Cooperation, which is soon to be opened at Paris. Professor Sir Gilbert Murray, in the absence of M. Bergson, ill, was in the chair. Among those present: Senator Henri de Jouvenal (France), Dr. Vernon Kellogg of the National Research Council (U. S.), Prof. Albert Einstein (Germany), Senator Ruffini (Italy), Prof. Gonzague de Reynold (Switzerland), M. Destree (Belgium), Dr. Casares (Spain), Prof. de Halecki (Poland), ex-Premier Buero (Uruguay), Dr. Gastro (Brazil...
...Paris, the French Government surprised everybody by sending Marshal Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain to Morocco "to assure in the best possible condition utilization of the reinforcements sent to Morocco and confer with Marshal Lyautey on all eventualities and on measures to be taken in order to insure success...
Opening. At Geneva, 39 members of the League of Nations and 4 nonmembers* inquired into the question of controlling traffic in arms and other munitions of war. Count Henri Carton de Wiart, President of the Conference, pointed out in his opening speech that "control" was meant in the French sense of the word (surveillance) and not in the English sense of authority. Much confusion became, nevertheless, rapidly manifest...