Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...League of Nations. Instinctively Baltic Finland joined them and also the Low Countries, Belgium, The Netherlands, minuscule Luxembourg. Nothing very practical was done about this group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual customers of all these countries were Germany and Britain, no parties to the original Oslo Convention. When the grand World Economic Conference fizzled out in 1933, the Oslo Convention as an actual agreement was virtually forgotten. But because all the Oslo countries save Belgium...
...North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away fortnight ago, waited till the weather lifted, then joined the main party, bringing to 35 the number of Russians encamped serenely at the top of the world to investigate scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff...
...prolog, a whip-cracking circus-trainer introduced the principal characters as if they were animals. Lulu was a hideous, wriggling snake whose behavior carried over into her human incarnation in the three main acts. Nearly everybody in the cast had a turn at her favors. Dr. Goll died of apoplexy when he caught her cheating. An idealistic painter killed himself upon hearing about her past. A feeble old lecher named Schön married her. When he surprised her with his son, Schön gave Lulu a revolver with which to kill herself. Lulu shot him instead...
Violent protest against certain indecencies had been launched by Florence Hardy, President of Main Hall, whose latest bulletin, "On How to Conduct Yourself", claims that "the present situation has brought condemnation" on the Poughkeepsie elites "from all quarters...
...year course, Stephens is equipped with a streamlined curriculum which makes girls worry little over mathematics or Greek, lets them concentrate instead on such subjects as Elementary Music, Consumers' Problems, Principles of Dietetics, Tap Dancing, Expressive Speech. The courses are grouped to correspond with the seven main divisions which sprightly President Wood and Psychologist Wernett W. Charters made of women's problems: ethical, physical, mental, social, communicative, esthetic, budgetary. Psychologist Charters, who was engaged by Stephens in 1922 to help President Wood decide how women differed from men, has since collected and analyzed some 7.400 women...