Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centuries ago a curious and fearsome phenomenon. Suddenly and inexplicably large crowds began to dance in the streets with furious abandon, screaming, writhing, foaming at the mouth. The mania spread from city to city, new victims being inspired by sight of wandering sufferers, until most of Central and Northern Europe was a howling, leaping pandemonium. Uncontrollable, the dancers heeded no barriers, dashed out their brains against stone walls, pranced off bridges. Those caught in time were turned over to priests for lifting of curses, casting out of demons...
This arrondissement in northern Paris is a factory workers' district, almost solidly Communist but with a minority of hard-headed little cafe and shop keepers who are tough - or with their middle-class ideas they would not live in Clichy. Some of these shopkeepers belong to the new French Social Party, successor to the bourgeois Croix de Feu league of gentle manly and insipid Colonel Count Casimir de La Rocque (TIME, April 20). Last week the Social Party hired the Olympia cinema house in Clichy for a special showing of their film La Bataille. Communists at once protested. Paris...
From the snowy wastes of Northern China came missionary reports last week that Mongol hordes have now established a. new Japan-controlled autonomous nation in Chahar Province "similar to Japan's puppet-state of Manchukuo," are calling it "Mongokuo." This territory, wedged between Manchukuo and Suiyan Province, is roughly the size of Ohio, has its capital at Chap Ser. Another slice of China has thus nearly if not quite been added to the Japanese Empire...
...years ago, however, a sheet of ice a mile thick lay over the Great Lakes region. The tremendous weight of this pressed down the earth, which is now springing back in desultory jerks. Last week's quakes were caused by upward jerks of this kind in northern Ohio. Seismologists declare that the recovery from glacial compression is not yet complete, expect it to continue but never to attain destructive violence. Father Joseph Lynch, S. J., of Fordham University guessed last week that rise & fall of the Ohio River flood may have accelerated the snap-back process. Father Joseph Sebastian...
Former assistant Dean Wilbur J. Bender '27, who is on the faculty of Phillips Academy, Andover, is doing the same work in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. Both men expect to return before...