Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Chichibu, short, lithe, athletic, sallow-skinned, once studied at Oxford. During his vacations he scampered up Swiss Alps, peered from mountain tops through his owlish tortoise shell spectacles...
...importance of the Harvard Law School as an international as well as a national institution was brought again into the foreground yesterday by the announcement of the choice of a Swiss and a Hungarian as the beneficiaries of the Pugsley Scholarships...
...Klein's satisfaction was natural. Two years ago his bureau had stirred the U. S. Department of Justice to bring an anti-trust suit against 27 Dutch, British, Japanese, German, French, Swiss and U. S. firms who were restraining the quinine trade...
...more embarrassing question could not have been asked of the League statesmen who assemble each September in placid Swiss Geneva. They were thoroughly vexed...
...prevent oxidation, but reputedly little else. Lastly there is spraying objects-of wood, paper, metal, etc.-with aluminum particles. An aluminum wire is fed through an electric arc whence an air blast blows the melting aluminum against its carrier object, just as paint or lacquer is blown. This (a Swiss method) produces a porous aluminum coating little protective against acids...