Word: fatalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towering rage, last week; because the fat, poodle-nosed man whom he had called "King Gustav" was quietly celebrating his fifth anniversary as German Foreign Minister. The Poodle-Man is Dr. Gustav Stresemann.* He celebrated at Oberhof, a Thuringian spa, where he has been convalescing from an almost fatal kidney attack (TIME, May 28). Telegrams, cables and flowers poured in, for Dr. Stresemann is the outstanding and most potent German statesman. He has held the Foreign Ministry while nine Cabinets have fallen. Previously, as Chancellor of the German Reich (1923), he wangled the French out of the Ruhr (which they...
Warrior of Wit. Too many generals lack wit. Indeed the quality is thought fatal in a military man, or policeman. But General Obregon's buoyant, spontaneous wit bubbled at convivial moments like champagne-to which he was not addicted, being an advocate of temperance, not prohibition...
There are two types of rabies: cerebros final irritation (furious rabies); nerve system degeneration (dumb rabies). Both are fatal after symptoms occur. The only hope lies in an early application of the Pasteur treatment...
George Richards Minot: A medical explorer, who has abolished a fatal malady, and opened a road for more recovery...
Faith in alcohol is based on ignorance of snakes. Many snakes that bite are not poisonous, the majority of poisonous bites are not fatal. The victim drowns his despair in drink. When, on growing sober, he finds himself still alive the alcohol gets the credit...