Word: thies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another specific job is to warn of thi approach of war gas, so there is a committee called the Union Feminine Civique et Sociale which trains women sniffers (flaireuses) to detect nearly odorless gasses by smell without getting killed by taking too deep a whiff...
...Raper was careful to point out that thi functioning of sex hormones in Achlya ambisexualis does not imply anything similar in other plants.* Even so hormonic sex can no longer be regarded as the exclusive cock-a-doodle-doo of the animal kingdom...
Sirs: Your article, Nevada-"One Sound State" (TIME, March 8) is good with the exception of your statement concerning the climate of which you say: "-hot & dry in summer; so snow cold in winter that even the Governor gets ou and shovels." The climate is so varied in thi; big State that a simple "hot" or "cold" doe: not describe both ends of it at the same time Reno, for instance, does have cold, snowy win ters; but her summers are never hot. While Reno is summering with coolish days, and cooler nights, Las Vegas in the southern part...
...which the Board funneled out in the fiscal year 1933-34, the biggest part went, as usual, to the South. Like the Rosenwald Fund, the General Education Board long ago made Southern education its special ward. In 32 years it has granted $57,418,075 for thi education of Southern whites, $32,331,203 for the education of Southern Negroes. But, like the Rosenwald Fund which year ago closed its program of building Negro schoolhouses (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933), the General Education Board is withdrawing from some of its early work in Southern schools, trusting to State legislatures to carry...
...Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend of Käthi Schratt as he was. One by one Franz Josef's family died, his heir Rudolf supposedly by his own hand, his wife by a shoemaker's awl in the hand of an assassin. The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian...