Word: putted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared virtually to bar all imports from Japan (perhaps in retaliation for Japan's refusal to buy New Zealand wool), and cut other imports from 20% to 80%. British imports were cut least. The policy had the same effect as extremely high tariffs, except that restraining pressure was put on local importers rather than on foreign businesses...
...Rome no interpreters were necessary since II Duce speaks fluent English. Premier Mussolini rushed forward and pump-handled his guest vigorously, then accompanied him to the palatial Villa Madama. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano warmly greeted Lord Halifax. There was nothing of the lavish display put on in Rome for Adolf Hitler's visits. Total cost of Mr. Chamberlain's three-day entertainment was only $5,000. But the Italian people, many of whom believe that it was the British statesman and not II Duce who kept them out of a war in September, gave Mr. Chamberlain...
...talking, there was not much for the two diplomats to talk about. As to Spain, Signor Mussolini indicated he expected a Franco victory soon, and when that was achieved it would be time enough to talk further about Italy's demands on France. (An Italianate Spain would probably put France in a bargaining mood.) He was willing to discuss the plight of the Jews with other powers, but to send none to Ethiopia. He amiably reaffirmed the Anglo-Italian friendship pledge of 1938. Net: zero. To underscore the zero Mr. Chamberlain also called on the Pope...
Pleading guilty last week to using the line-and also to presenting another Odets play, I Can't Sleep-without authorization, all ten were fined $7.50, put on probation for a year...
...nose are influenced by sex hormones is a theory well-known to biologists. Four years ago Biochemist Hector Mortimer of Montreal's McGill University and his colleagues, Dr. Robert Percy Wright and Nobel Prize-sharer James Bertram Collip, one of the discoverers of insulin, decided to put the theory to practical use. They dropped small amounts of female sex hormone estrogen into the noses of patients who suffered from atrophic rhinitis (withering of the nasal mucous membranes). Many patients recovered. But they were amazed when one woman announced that a ringing in her ears, which had irritated...