Word: thirteens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barrow, on Alaska's Arctic Ocean edge 30 years ago. Last week influenza demonstrated that the years of white men's invasion have not inured Eskimos to white men's epidemics. Three hundred Eskimos at Point Barrow, 200 at Wainwright, were abed with influenza last week. Thirteen of the Point Barrow victims were dead. While Eskimo boys chopped graves in the frozen Point Barrow cemetery, the 13 lay in the rear end of the Presbyterian church. They had coffins. But Dr. Henry W. Greist, 67, an Indianian who sequestered himself in that remote community as a medical...
...appeal for liberalism against both Fascism and Communism. Mr. De Veaux Smith, with his playlet "Good-Luck," endeavours to meet the challenge of unemployment in a two-room flat on Third Avenue, where Mary Young and her son, Rob, eke out their days, Rob having had no work for thirteen months. To them, bearing a Thanksgiving day basket, comes a woman of wealth who turns out to have been a childhood playmate of Mary Young; Mr. Smith avoids the most obvious inducements to sentimentality in this situation, but he nevertheless asks us to believe at the end that...
...enlivened France's great spy gang trial by biting a lawyer (TIME, April 22) snoozed last week as its mother got three years. The other baby, when red-robed Chief Justice Etienne Revol hunched forward to sentence its mother also to three years, let out throat-splitting yells. Thirteen spies received sentences totaling 41 years and ten months...
...that I stepped within a foot of one of them, one that did not strike and did not rattle, but like a silent thing uncoiled at my very feet and crawled toward a hole in a clump of greasewood. I shot it three times and killed it. It had thirteen rattles on its stubby tail. I sweat now to think of that, how I started to brush between two clumps of bushes and saw it at my very feet, how I leaped like a man shot, backward and high in the air, away from that repulsive killer. I shouted...
...famed water poloist in history, Joe Ruddy Sr. His three sons, Ray, Don and Joe Jr. are currently the team's mainstay. Born and brought up in New York, Joe Ruddy Sr. won his first swimming race when he was 14, at the Chicago World's Fair. Thirteen years later, when he had had time to master water polo and 25 other sports, Joe Ruddy married a champion swimmer named Mary Veronica Donahue, started to raise Mary, Dorothy, Joe, Ray and Donald Ruddy. Ruddy children were taken for their first swim at 11 months. At 2½ years...