Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...death toll peculiar to typhus fever.*Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn for the sake of experiment taped to his leg. The fleas came from rats. And that explained the mode of transmission of a mild type of typhus fever (Brill's disease) which exists endemically on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts from New York to Louisiana (TIME...
Many of Artist Klee's paintings were more eerie than these, e.g., On the Lawn (see cut) with its lemon-yellow stratified spectre children. Many of his recent works were more abstract, taking a line walking for its own sake, using hieroglyphic bands, patterns of color values, simplifications borrowed from paleolithic cave drawings or the art of children. If a few of such Klee ideas seemed oversubtle, there was no lack of ideas...
...hope you enjoy yourself at West Point and Annapolis but for Heaven's sake don't foll for a uniform. Harvard, after all, is the best place for Wellesley girls. Sheff sends his love, as usual...
...body to which belong such people as Nicholas Murray Butler, Herbert Hoover, Senator Arthur Capper, did not forget His Beatitude's words when he became Premier last month (TIME, Feb. 28). To Patriarch Cristea the Committee's Chairman John Howland Lathrop wrote urging that, for the sake of the Christian church throughout the world, he moderate his stand. Last week, to the great surprise and pleasure of Jews in Rumania and abroad, the Patriarch...
...before the First World War. England and France are still inseparable; England will not stand by and watch Germany make her a secondary power, and France, if Blum can keep her government upright, will fight to prevent Nazi enticement. Suspicious of his rival and unwilling, for the sake of his prestige, to be made the lesser of two evils, Mussolini can extend his arm only toward England. Thus, it is E. I. E. against Germany-Austria...