Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Czechoslovakia's Sudeten German minority, and Premier Milan Hodza on settlement of the Sudeten grievances, came to a halt last week as Führer Henlein journeyed to Cheb (pop. 31,500), two miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral for the new "Nazi martyrs." Thousands of Sudetens poured into the 17th-Century town on autos, bicycles and afoot for the ceremony. Leaning backward to prevent another "incident," the Czechoslovakian Government ordered troops in the vicinity confined to barracks, even...
...leaving the scene of the crime the manicurist abandoned his implements, including a can of paint with the name A. B. Dawson written on it. Dawson, director of the laboratories, was not reached for comment yesterday...
Yellow Jack (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is by long odds the cinema season's most thrilling melodrama. Its scene: fever-racked Cuba after the Spanish-American War. Its vampire-villain is Aedes...
Professor Kohler, one of the world's most brilliant organic chemists, has been an integral part of the Harvard scene for 26 years: he has taught Chemistry 5 every year since 1912, when he came to Harvard after 20 years of teaching at Bryn Mawr. One of the first two graduate students who studied with him was James B. Conant '14, who also worked under him during the war. As a scientist, he was outstanding--his work in unsaturated organic compounds is internationally known and respected--but it was as a teacher and a man that the unique quality...
Tommy Dorsey turned novelist and Harvard became the scene of yet another newspaper serial, as the first installment of "Love in Swingtime" appeared in the Boston Evening American last night...