Word: neutral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absorb Liechtenstein, he could meet little resistance, for the country has no army, no defenses and no military alliances. It sided with Austria in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866, but its 81 soldiers did not reach the front in time to fight. In 1914-18 Liechtenstein was neutral. Liechtenstein is 15 miles (beeline) of the upper Rhine Valley. It is a flag stop on the Paris-Budapest railway. The scenery is unbeatable; on the east side of the valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz...
...stuck his neck out," asked for comment. It quickly appeared that there were at least a half-dozen psychologists in the room who still thought ESP might be a reality. These arose, one by one, to criticize the critic. One charged him with not approaching the problem in a neutral spirit, with making his own arbitrary definitions of Science and Truth...
Music 6 Meals, "This is a report," declared Dr. Gregory S. Razran of Columbia University, "of an extensive experiment to change human preferences for music, paintings, and photographs of young college girls, by a differential conditioning technique." His technique consisted of presenting neutral or distasteful items during a free lunch, items which were already preferred before or after the lunch. "The results, show the differential conditioning to be remarkably effective. Even one lunch was sufficient to produce considerable and reliable changes in the group tastes. ... It appears that the preferential value of one or another form of music...
Meanwhile, in Rome, the "impostor" has been able to show neutral correspondents his official Soviet diplomatic identity papers and Soviet police identity card, each bearing his likeness confirmed by Moscow's official stamp. By last week the Rumanian Government had also compared the Rome pictures of Butenko with pictures of this New Bolshevik in its files at Bucharest, verified the likeness. Further, the Rumanian Government affirmed that a letter from the Rome Butenko attesting that he "fled voluntarily" and was "not kidnapped" is in the same handwriting as that of the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires...
Although the Seattle election was a blow to the long-term political aspirations of labor as a whole, the C. I. O. was comforted by Beck's defeat and by the fact that it was left with a Mayor who would at least be neutral instead of its sworn enemy in labor's internecine war. Mayor-Elect Langlie specifically promised this neutrality but warned: "It's up to labor to clean its own house. However, labor will not be permitted to step on the toes of innocent persons in its various activities...