Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those connected with war, deluded--when public opinion realizes that no lasting peace can ever be attained by war; that each war makes peace just so much more remote, and life just so much more primitive--perhaps then we will do away with force as a means of settlement. Then only will we really have peace in which our young men can work and accomplish--and prove their right to the title of "hero" without having to have it thrust on their dead bodies, whose strength and genius were wasted in making other bodies dead...
...Coney Island, N. Y., pending settlement of a suit Mrs. Little Docen last week was appointed receiver of her husband's property listed as follows: four two-legged dogs, two six-legged sheep, one five-legged sheep, one three-legged chicken, one animal half sheep, half goat, one two-legged cat, two six-footed cats, one chicken "with a human face...
...China was rancid with cholera this summer, a pestilential menace to the rest of the globe. By last week, as cold weather crept over the country, the trouble was subsiding. Remembered then was the prediction of Dr. J. H. Jordan. British Commissioner of Public Health of the Shanghai International Settlement, that the disease, which is always skulking in China, would be especially virulent this year. Some 500,000 Chinese contracted the disease, some 150,000 died (Dr. Jordan's estimate). Last July Dr. Robert Watson Hart, chief of the American Oriental Quarantine Service, saw "20 funerals in 20 minutes...
...explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter Harbor they found three herds of musk oxen and an old Eskimo settlement. Reported Adventurer Verville: "These Eskimos have milk-white skins, except where their face and hands have become tanned and weather-beaten...
...hours become few & far between. Seth, remodeling his capital, tears down the Anglican Cathedral, renames the site "Place Marie Stopes." Climax of Azanian modernization is to be a Pageant of Birth Control. The pageant turns into a riot, the riot into a revolution. Seth is killed, the English settlement flees the country in airplanes. Prudence's plane has engine trouble, makes a forced landing. Few days later Basil, entertained by friendly cannibal chiefs, eats her unaware...