Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until late at night could rescue crews go into the village, for like a pile of firecrackers, ammunition dumps sputtered and banged erratically long after the main fireworks were over. When at last some sort of order was restored, there was little to be done but gruesome counting: 48 known dead, 32 at the point of death, 440 seriously injured, 800 homes destroyed, 8,313 persons left homeless. Completely wrecked was an insane asylum...
...dogs rushed to his laboratory, and a public international subscription was opened to build larger quarters. Thousands of francs poured in, and in 1888 President Sadi Carnot of France, surrounded by a brilliant throng of cheering scientists, opened the Pasteur Institute. But the new Institute came too late to the old genius who had! suffered taunts and gibes all his life. As he gazed with pride at his spacious new buildings and modern equipment he said sadly: "I have the poignant melancholy of a man who enters here beaten by time...
...Institute scientists receive very low salaries, for the Institute's income barely supports it. Dr. Plotz, who proved that measles is a virus disease, is now working on a measles serum, recently developed a new modern type of smallpox vaccination. He works in the laboratory of the late famed Biologist Elie Metchnikoff, who received a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work on immunity. > Professor Gaston Ramon, square-built, square-bearded son of a farmer, who lives surrounded by 400 horses at the Institute's annex in Garches. He makes tremendous quantities of serums against diphtheria, bubonic plague...
...been accustomed to vacation yearly in Switzerland or in Italy's Montecatini. He keeps his lean, six-foot frame in condition by exercising in a completely equipped gymnasium in his Secretary of State's apartments-from which, presumably, he will move as soon as the late Pope's living quarters, two floors above, are redecorated. On his first day as Pope, Pius XII rose at 6 a.m., shaved himself with his electric razor, celebrated Mass, breakfasted on coffee and rolls, then embarked upon a busy day during which his only diversions were a motor ride...
...jewel-like permanence of color and patience of workmanship in their best pictures-two reasons why collectors short on verve but long on taste have made a safe hobby of Early Flemish masterpieces. The finest U. S. collection of Flemish primitives was formed by a lawyer, the late John Graver Johnson of Philadelphia...