Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Readers who gobbled Jan Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
...March of Influenza" is what Nature calls the pandemic which, first evident in the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 12 et seq.). has spread over Europe. Between the continents it hit the Cameronia, put 500 passengers to berth, killed none. Off England last week the entire crew of a fishing smack caught the disease, but kept to sea until they exhausted their rum & quinine. French battleships Paris and Jean Bart reported most of their personnel disabled...
...proper kind of inkwell, the scientific height and slope for a desk, a dustless chalk, a shineless blackboard, hygienic methods of ventilation-these school details and many another have been well thought out. But punishment is still crude, unscientific, oldfashioned. You cane one child, thwack another, smack a third. Why should chastisement not be up-to-date, simple, exact? So ran the musings of a smart Australian pedagog. Last week the startled Ministry of Education in Sydney received, and began to ponder, a strange result of his thoughts: a contraption of many wheels, dials, weights, levers, by which a cane...
Precisely why did the Promethée sink? Before this could possibly be known rumors grew that some clumsy seaman had opened the diving valves by accident. Another rumor had Lieut, du Mesnil commit suicide after he was picked up with six lucky survivors by a fishing smack. Actually the Lieutenant announced himself at the disposal of the usual naval board of inquiry. "Before realizing what had happened," he told reporters, "I was swimming for my life...
...from newspaper sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from Boston; among its crew was a Portuguese called James Brown. Two of the crew were missing, were found in the hold. James Brown was sucking the blood from one of them, the other body was drained...