Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Present policy of the Yugoslav Government is to remain neutral. Yugoslavs know well that acceptance of the Dictators' proposals that she sign up with them m the anti-Comintern Pact almost inevitably means the end of independence, but that outright rejection of any and all alliances might be equally disastrous. Noteworthy it was last week that Foreign Minister Alexander Cinca-Markovitch, after chatting for several days with Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano in Venice, traveled to Berlin to see Führer Adolf Hitler. Then he went back home, announced proudly he had "signed nothing...
...Columbia Graphophone Co. planned a joint history of music, stamped on records. Edited by the noted English music historian and lexicographer, Percy Scholes (TIME, Dec. 12), this history was to consist of short recorded examples of music typical of all periods from the loth Century to the present. The Columbia History's fifth and last volume gives a taste and a sniff of the 20th Century's principal musical styles, ranges from the romantic Schwarmerei of Richard Strauss and Mahler to the quarter-tone caterwauling of Kulturbolschewik Alois Haba...
Several years ago Drs. Steinberg & Brown learned that oxalic acid is present in small quantities in normal blood. In the last three years they have injected standard, three-milligram doses of oxalic acid into the veins of almost 1,000 persons who suffered from excessive bleeding due to such varied conditions as hemophilia, gastric ulcers, childbirth, jaundice and kidney and lung infections. In every case bleeding stopped within five minutes, the normal coagulating time, even though the patients had been bleeding as long as two hours. In many cases bleeding ceased within 45 seconds of injection. Oxalic acid thus appeared...
...these findings," concluded the scientists, "nothing can be said at this time. If human tumors react in the same way to the combined X-ray and distilled water treatment . . . the range of successful application of X-rays in the treatment of cancer will be materially increased. For, at present, good results cannot be obtained in many cases because the tumor is so insensitive to X-rays that the large dose required to kill it will cause too much damage in adjoining normal tissue...
...Decembers, Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres's Christmas present to U. S. business has been a speech to the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, forecasting the coming year's prospects. Last December the country's No. 1 bachelor economist prepared business leaders for substantially better business in 1939, especially in the first half year. He said: "The monthly average of industrial production was 110* in 1937, and it will probably be 85 or 86 in 1938. It now seems likely that its average in 1939 will be about...