Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last spring heavy rains have swollen the two rivers that writhe clear across China: deep Yangtze and wide, slow Hwang Ho or Yellow River which 81 years ago shifted its entire course from the south to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Government experts last month warned China's millions that "almost inevitably" the Hwang Ho would writhe out of its new retaining dikes (many feet above the surrounding terrain) back to its old course (TIME, July 3). Last week the Hwang Ho broke its dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped...
...Louis physicians knew it was epidemic encephalitis, the brain inflammation popularly called sleeping sickness.* Known in Europe since 1712, it first appeared in the U.S. at the end of 1918. following the world-wide influenza epidemic of that year. But the name and effects of the disease are almost all that is known about it. Scientists think it must be caused by a virus, but they can only guess at what the virus is, how it is spread, how best combated...
Since no public building seemed a safe place to inaugurate Provisional President de Cespedes he gave an inaugural garden party at 9:30 a. m. on the wide terrace of his handsome house. Flashing-eyed Cuban ladies embraced each other and their escorts with patriotic fervor as eight judges of the Cuban Supreme Court arrived majestically in their black robes. No foreign envoy, not even U. S. Ambassador Welles, was present. Amid sizzling heat Dr. Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce...
...fish, fresh fruit and sea-salt. Allowed to eat as much as they wanted of whatever they wanted, they proceeded to eat just as pediatricians would forbid them-quantities of meat and eggs, few vegetables and cereals. None of them ever ate spinach a second time. Some ate a wide variety of foods, some specialized But when, after five years, their individual diets were analyzed. Dr. Davis found that Nature had guided them wisely. Their diets were balanced, their teeth almost perfect...
...misadventure he had. He bought the bonds of Hinsdale County, Colo., and tried to get people to go there as a resort. To that end he built a group of luxurious cabins in an old mining settlement, invited people from far & wide to come as his guests. Then he was charged with conspiring with officials of the County to buy up its bonds at 30? on the dollar and get them refunded dollar for dollar. He was to have gone on trial on that charge Aug. 11. He did not, because Governor Landon ordered his arrest...