Word: metropolises
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(3 of 7) which Joseph Stalin has not altogether had his way. Stubborn, the Mongols have gradually talked their Russian patrons out of many Communist innovations unsuited to such nomads as themselves. Today Urga is emphatically the capital of Outer Mongolia, not a mere dependency of Moscow. Mongol Premier Gendun...
The solemn lying in state of the body of George V evoked tremendous homage. Spontaneously Britons of all degrees hurried from Scotland. Wales, the English counties, London suburbs and all parts of the great metropolis to form a line eight-abreast which began more than a mile up the Thames...
Dr. John Levi Rice, New York City's Health Commissioner for the past two years, restlessly waited his turn to address the 2,500 social sanitarians. Exclaimed Dr. Rice: "Syphilis is today the biggest single problem facing my health department. There are 380,000 cases of syphilis in New...
Billy Rose (né Rosenberg), one of the brightest boys ever graduated from New York City's Public School No. 44, has brooked very few failures in his 34 years. As his biographer, Alva Johnston, has pointed out. Rose has become one of the shrewdest characters in the cut...
Since human beings are creatures of infinite adaptability, they make themselves comfortable and thrive in torrid and frigid zones, on mountains and in prairies. Skillfully they adjust themselves to the slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves...