Word: pieds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cabbage & Compote. In Vienna last week, first intimate details of Chancellor Schuschnigg's recent parley with Chancellor Hitler at Berchtesgaden (TIME, Feb. 28) became known. During lunch Vegetarian Hitler ate cooked red cabbage as his pièce de résistance, consumed a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Schuschnigg and the others consumed cold lobster and "fresh asparagus grown under sun lamps," the Germans said. The talk at luncheon, following the two Chancellors' private conference and agreement, was of horse breeding mainly. The Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German...
Rehearsals for this year's Pi Eta show are beginning this week. Scheduled for performance on Friday and Saturday evenings, March 25 and 26, it is entitled "Revolt in Reverse" and was written by Richard Dorr...
...groundwork for his drive, Editor Mabley, a 22-year-old Beta Theta Pi, assigned reporters to cover eight Champaign vice resorts. They interviewed inmates, photographed a brothel façade with the madame in the doorway, a college student "planted" on the porch. Fortnight ago the Illini opened its pack of revelations, drew forth these...
...finishing, college president of the student body, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Beta Kappa, he gave up graduate work to become an instructor at Yakima High School and support his family. After two years of saving he had $600. He resolved on an insurance selling venture, bungled it and lost all but $75. So he registered at Columbia Law School in Manhattan, expressed his trunk ahead, set out himself as "herder" for a shipment of sheep going to Chicago for slaughter...
...Europe who have managed to get to Paris for this high-powered intellectual carnival. Among French scientists who have collaborated to make and staff the Palace of Discovery is Mine Curie-Joliot, eminent chemist daughter of the discoverer of radium. One completely round room exhibits the mathematical symbol pi (ordinarily figured as equal to 3,1416) worked out to such a length that the resulting decimal winds three times around the room. At intervals is heard a phonograph transcription of a short lecture by one of France's greatest mathematicians, briefly outlining a few of the countless facts which...