Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieutenant in U. S. N. Air Service, broke his back, made a plucky recovery, launched upon a career of public service aboard a $4,500,000 endowment from his father, became Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics under President Hoover. When the Democratic landslide carried him out of the sub-Cabinet into the American Museum's presidency, his old interest in Africa snapped
When Mrs. Helen Wills Moody fell ill last week of what her doctors called "sub-acute unstable fifth lumbar vertebrae symptoms" and what Sports Colyumist Westbrook Pegler called "a crick in her back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim, brown Sarah Palfrey, a girl who has played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs...
Firmly pursuing this destiny, Marshal Muto sat in Changchun, subsisting on his Spartan diet of rice, rice, rice, while his sub-commanders conquered the Chinese province of Jehol, added it to Manchukuo (TIME, March 13). Like Marshal Muto his successor General Hishikari is con sidered not a military genius but a safe & sane commander able to guide the exuberance of junior officers and to build up Manchukuo as a state...
Perfectly composed, the troop of assassins sat in court, each with his head completely covered by a basketwork hood, as is the Japanese rule when capital crime is involved. Alert and proud of his patriotism, Sub-Lieutenant Seishi Koga rose to testify: "We thought that a war with America was needed to rehabilitate the Japanese national spirit. We planned to blow up Premier Inukai and Mr. Chaplin together. It was only when some of us were arrested and we had to hurry our preparations to kill Premier Inukai that we gave up our plan to kill the American...
...Five-grain doses, or slightly less reduced fat men and women two pounds a week without exercise or diet, made them feel better and more active. The investigators suggest that this dinitrophenol dose be tried cautiously for myxedema and other phenomena of sub-functioning thyroids...