Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week occurred in China. It was as if Hitler had been kidnapped by Goring or Stalin by Voroshilov. In fact the most powerful man in Eastern Asia had been kidnapped last week by one of his potent and ambitious countrymen, a Chinese who not many years ago was under treatment in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping for addiction to opium. Kidnappee was the Premier of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the military conqueror of his country not many years ago (TIME, April 25, 1927). Kidnapper was "The Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-liang, son of the late great War Lord Chang...
...vitamin D in the skin. Developed by Professors Walter S. Huxford and Robert Cashman, the "sunburnometer" is noi sensitive to visible light or to the short radiation on the other side of the sunburn band. It may also be used to test the efficacy of ultraviolet lamps for indoor treatment...
This linseed oil treatment makes the ski more flexible, thus less likely to break; and also keeps them from soaking; up water thus preventing warping. When skis are out of use for any considerable length of time they should be kept in a press. This consists of clamps at each end, holding the skis together a block in the middle which keeps the how in shape and a piece of wood or metal fastened to the points, pushing them apart...
Seeking passage home to Tahiti after obtaining medical treatment for his ten-year-old son Conrad, Author James Norman Hall (Mutiny on the Bounty) was stranded in San Francisco by the shipping strike. Gloomed he: "This civilization can't last because it just doesn't make sense...
Under the rival Giannini plan the "non-cans" would have received better treatment at the start but insurance experts testified that the Carpenter plan would be better for them in the end. Declared Judge Willis last week: "We must all concede that in such obscure matters as pertain to the actuarial aspect of the life insurance business, we know very little-so little that our own personal judgment is worthless. So we have to look to those who know." Loser though he was, Lawrence Mario Giannini, heir apparent to his father's banking throne, announced: "I sincerely hope...