Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grown headstrong, his cleverness inspired distrust. There was a time when Westerners muttered about a hard-living "rounder" somewhere in the Near East whose lack of scruples made diplomatic stability impossible, but that time passed when, as Turkey grew stronger, Saracoglu's reputation grew bright. Last week none of this mattered: only what Stalin could say to Saracoglu, what Saracoglu could say to Stalin; whether Turkey, breaking with Britain and France, would join with Stalin and Hitler in another move for "peace" as devastating as the German-Russian Pact had been. Said the astute Associated Press, employing the language...
...headquarters in Poland, Adolf Hitler last week retorted to Great Britain's effort to strangle him economically. He signed a contraband list virtually identical with the British list, for a counter-blockade at sea of war munitions and other supplies destined for Allied ports in neutral vessels. With none of his Navy except perhaps 25 submarines outside of the Baltic, this action was a fairly empty gesture except as it affected Scandinavian shipping. First to feel it was Sweden's paper-pulp industry, whose big customers are British newspapers (see p.19...
Unvarying is the traditional Keeley routine. An incoming inebriate pays $160, plus room and board, must stay for 31 days. His whiskey ration is gradually tapered off: eight ounces the first day, six ounces the second, four ounces the third, none from then on. Four times a day he gets gold chloride injections; every two hours he takes a tonic. At the end of the course, Keeley Drs. Robert Estill Maupin, Bert Trippeer and Andrew Jackson McGee look him over, ask him if he still feels the "irresistible craving of nerve cells for alcohol." Usually he says no. How many...
...theory the delegates heard: a dozen concerts ranged in theme from music of the two Americas to Venetian and Dalmatian songs of the Renaissance. One program resurrected unpublished music by Handel, none of it performed since the composer's day. Enjoyed most by delegates and outsiders alike was a concert of medieval music at The Cloisters, Manhattan's museum-piece museum of Gothic art, where bull-necked French Tenor Yves Tinayre and a girls' choir sang motets, trouvere songs, Gregorian chants...
...example, the men who did the original work on photoelectricity, the phenomenon that now magically opens restaurant and railway station doors and performs a thousand sorting jobs in industry, were all pure scientists. And the man who first clarified photoelectricity by describing it mathematically was none other than Albert Einstein...