Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gratitude of Europe and the gratitude of the whole world is due at this time, in my opinion, to Hitler!" cried Lord Redesdale, to whom Lord Cecil dryly rejoined, ''If Lord Redesdale happened to be a Liberal, a Roman Catholic or a Jew in Austria, I very much doubt if he would talk...
Meanwhile the great Rightist offensive was doing well, but the caution of the Generalissimo continued strongly in evidence. The No. 2 city of Catalonia is Lerida, No. 1 being Barcelona, and last week Rightist General Juan Yague waited for three whole days with an overwhelming force before Lérida, while other supporting Rightist units on his left and right wings completed their scheduled gains. Then the Generalissimo ordered: "Proceed to take Lérida!" In a full day of savage street fighting, with Rightist tanks crashing down barricades, artillery pounding ahead, Lérida was taken...
...barbarians! Who invented and still employs the guillotine? [Cries of "Die Franzosen!" (The French!)] Who exterminated whole social classes? [Cries of "Die Bolschewiken!" (The Bolsheviks!)] ... It is stupid to say 'Hitler means war.' . . . He tore the Treaty of Versailles to pieces and threw them in the faces of its beneficiaries. By so doing war was avoided...
...Addis Ababa smart Emperor Haile Selassie sold to Francis W. Rickett a concession covering oil exploitation rights in almost the whole kingdom. This Mr. Rickett offered in a quick turnover to Standard Vacuum Oil Co., and at the time many Europeans believed this deal (which ultimately fell through) would draw the U. S. into protecting the owners of the concession, thus barring Benito Mussolini from conquering...
...borne typhus. A few months later Dr. Hans Zinsser of Harvard produced a vaccine against louse-born typhus (TIME, March 13, 1933). Thus it became possible to inoculate armies against typhus, just as armies of the War and since have been regularly inoculated against typhoid and smallpox. But, although whole civilian populations have been gradually inoculated against smallpox, it remains a question whether under stress of war whole populations can be speedily immunized against typhus...