Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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West Virginia, Ohio. Thousands of families from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati fled to the hills before the advancing Ohio River flood crest. At Wheeling, W. Va. water reached 15 ft. on the main streets. The ten-mile residential island in midriver was totally submerged. Police ferried 6,000 citizens in rowboats to dry land. Thirteen people were drowned, four killed when a gas explosion blew their house to bits. Surging through the streets of West Virginia and Ohio towns on either bank, the crest rolled on toward Cincinnati and Louisville. But most downstream Ohio River cities, forewarned, experienced and well fortified...
Deeply moving too were Orator Hitler's words last week, he having in the meantime ruptured the treaty in question and remilitarized the Rhineland (TIME, March 16). "Natural rights stand above the paragraphs of treaties," the Realmleader told an election throng of 20,000 at Frankfurt-am-Main. "I ask the German people, 'Art Thou, Oh German people, in favor of burying the hatchet with France?' and they reply 'Yes.' And I ask, 'Dost Thou, Oh German people, desire that we should attempt to lord it over or suppress France?' and they answer...
From Vatican City the official newsorgan of His Holiness Pope Pius XI recently warned the faithful in obvious reference to Adolf Hitler that the intoxicating word HONOR is now being distorted out of all meaning by "demagogues." All Nazi best mouths made it ring throughout Germany last week. Their main point, hammered home thousands of times, was that the Fatherland is menaced by cruel foes who want to deprive Germans of their "honor . . . our precious honor . . . honor, the dearest thing to every German . . . GERMAN HONOR . . . German Honor . . . German honor...
Bismuth and mercury, both heavy metals, and arsenic, a light metallike element, have destructive effects upon the twirling spirochete which causes syphilis. In the usual modern treatment some compound of arsenic, such as Neosalvarsan, is used as the main weapon, some form of mercury or bismuth as supplement. The arsenic compound is usually injected into a vein in the arm. Mercury or bismuth compounds are injected into the rump...
...MAIN LINE WEST-Paul Horgan-Harper ($2.50). Tale of a sporty drummer of horse-&-buggy days in the Midwest, of his wife and son who tried to do better. More ambitious than Author Horgan's prize-winning The Fault of Angels but not as entertaining...