Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worcester came to Harvard in 1925 to fill the vacancy left by Dr. Roger I. Lee '01. Before his appointment he had served in many prominent medical positions all over the world. Most important amongst these were deputy commissioner of the American Red Cross in Switzerland in 1918 and 1919, and founder of the Royal Victorian Order of Nurses in Canada in commemoration of the Queen's Jubilee...
...summers of 1910 and 1911 Artist Chabas, who had been exhibiting with the Salon since 1885, spent by the chilly borders of Lake Annecy in the French Savoie, not far from Switzerland. Whenever the mornings were warm and clear enough, he would go down to the lake shore at 8:30 a. m. with his slender, blonde model. She would strip off her clothes, stand ankle deep in the icy water in a pose that the whole world knows. A slow meticulous worker, Artist Chabas would paint for only 30 minutes, then knock off until the next good morning. When...
...Ulanova, the newest "Soviet Pavlova," who is an appetizing* 23-year-old. With the Soviet Pavlova danced a new "Soviet Nijinsky" named Chebukian whose Communist admirers boast that "his jumps are even better than those by the great man who today lives in a world of mental darkness in Switzerland...
...Premier Phya Bahol promptly sent emissaries to offer the Throne to childless Prajadhipok's 11-year-old nephew, elf-faced Prince Ananda Mahidol, whose late father, a loyal Harvardman, resided for years in Cambridge's Brattle Inn. Last week Elfin Prince Ananda was at school in Lausanne, Switzerland when the Siamese Minister to Paris arrived to tell his mother that her son may be King of Siam...
...Zurich, Switzerland, March 1--Apparently inspired by the tragic death of the Du Bois sisters, Charles Grieder and his fiancee, Antoinette Joery, today leaped to death from an airplane near Basle...