Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cadman '35, D. S. Carmichael '35, V. H. Kramer '35 from the United States; G. V. Haythrone 1g, of Canada; Naotadu Kumagal '36, of Japan; Wolfgang Magnus 2G, of Germany; T. H. Wills 2G, of England; S. C. Tsui '33, of France, and Max Silverschmidt 1G, of Switzerland...
...last week to greet two young men and to listen appreciatively to what the young men had to say. The juniors were Lieut.-Commander Thomas G. V. Settle, U. S. N., winner of the James Gordon Bennett Trophy in this year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland (TIME, Oct. 10); and Ward Tunte Van Orman who finished second. They had just returned from Europe via Graf Zeppelin and South America...
Digressing within the general topic of cancer, Sir Lenthal last week observed that life habits seem to be factors in causing certain types of cancer. The frequency of cancer in women is practically the same in Japan, England, Switzerland and Holland. England and Switzerland show large percentages of cancer of the breast and uterus, considerably more of both kinds than has The Netherlands. In Japan there is a great deal of uterine cancer, very little mammary cancer...
Swaying foolishly in a strong southeast wind, 16 swollen gas bags floated up from Basle, Switzerland, one day last week. It was the 21st James Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race. Favorite teams were led by Belgium's Ernest de Muyter, four-time winner of Bennett races, and Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After...
...Communist parties have vital organizations, outside of Russia, only in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia, and those organizations are to be explained by particular conditions. In Switzerland, Austria, and the democratic countries of Northern Europe with strong Socialist parties, Communism has never gained a significant foothold...