Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piece of cardboard which was tried in their place was an immediate failure according to Mr. S. J. Gurnsey, Assistant Director of the Museum, who also expressed his fear lest the tinkerings of the present investigators might bring a permanent stop to the perplexing but immensely popular course of these strange importations from the South Sea Isles...
...Significance. Since a root cause of war from which most surface causes spring is admittedly the pressure of increasing population, it is to the advantage of all nations to ease and curb this pressure wisely, lest haphazard blood-letting continue.* But in Rome, Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni cried last week...
...issue is that of "rural" v. "urban" representation. Rural communities dominate Congress, but the shift of population is to urban centres. (In 1910, 54% of the people of the U.S. lived on farms or in little villages; in 1920, only 48%.) Rural Congressmen of both parties want no change, lest in the change the urban powers get control of the parties...
...Gentle Joke." A few hours after the "incident," Premier Mussolini drove unconcerned to a Cabinet meeting. To his Ministers, still desperately uneasy lest his wound should prove serious, he said with a smile...
...because they are unavailable, more often because they may suffer from contagious diseases to which their own offspring may be immune. Dr. Brouzet (Sur I'education medecinale des enfants) thought so poorly of human mothers that he wished the state to interfere and keep them from suckling their young lest they communicate immorality and disease. The chemist Van Helmont called milk "brute food" and wanted to substitute for it bread boiled in beer and honey. Substitutes for mother's milk have been made from cow's milk mixed with soft water, lactose ("sugar of milk") and phosphate of lime. This...