Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nations, the other an extension of the war-time rate of certain excise taxes. The rest concern such vital issues as annual rates of pay for Senate clerical staffs, the Philadelphia National Shrines Park Commission, installation of a storm drain under certain lands in Los Angeles, and payments to Switzerland for the sinking of the Awa Maru...
Novelist Hesse himself wrote from the Olympian vantage point of Switzerland, where he took refuge from the Fatherland in 1912 and where he still lives, now aged 70. He has half a hundred books to his credit and a considerable popularity on the Continent, at least among oldsters...
Resuming full scale activity reminiscent of pre-war years, members of the club contemplate summer climbs in Alaska, Peru, Switzerland, and western U. S., and Canada...
...Switzerland, without distraction from students or politics, Sigerist proposes to devote himself to quiet reflection and writing. He thinks that his history of medicine will be the last to be written by one man: medicine is becoming so complicated that "next time it will be done by a group." He is already preparing an attractive blurb for his book: "It will be a history of human civilization with emphasis on health and medicine. It will tell what people in the various civilizations ate and wore. It will tell what kind of houses the Egyptians lived in and whether they...
...barrier, tourists would run into other troubles. They could not go to Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria or Hungary. Elsewhere in Europe, food and hotel rooms were none too plentiful, many a currency was so unstable as to make the value of U.S. dollars unpredictable. Best travel bets: the British Isles, Switzerland, Scandinavia, France, the Low Countries...