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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since observers in both capitals were convinced that neither cautious Mr. Hull nor cautious Mr. Chamberlain would have made his preliminary announcement unless each had the end of the negotiations clearly in sight, friends of Mr. Hull joyously proclaimed that Great Britain, the biggest foreign customer of the U. S. and thus the belated keystone of the Hull reciprocal arch, was for all practical purposes already in place...
...Toulouse-Lautrec became a dwarf, shortsighted, blubber-lipped, with a normal trunk and tiny, shriveled limbs. Only 4 ft. 6 in. high, he could not lift an ordinary suitcase off the ground, had special sausage-shaped luggage designed for him. Fortunately, although his aristocratic family could not stand the sight of him, they kept him well supplied with cash...
...chic woman beside one of the virgins of the Parthenon, and that will be a sight to burst with laughter or weep with shame; any one of these Indians is a sister of that ancient. . . . The decoration is always simple, taken from familiar things of nature and craft; beauty of hard earth and birds, better than Solomon in all his glory; and put together with an abstract geometry such as only this people after the Greeks of Crete have possessed...
Last week Dr. Jean Broadhurst, 64, tall, stately, silver-haired professor of bacteriology at Columbia University, announced in the Journal of Infectious Diseases that by-products of the measles virus, known as inclusion bodies, can be brought to sight by a blue-black stain called nigrosin which pathologists use to color and distinguish certain cells of the central nervous system from all other cells. No bacteriologist before Miss Broadhurst, who began her long career by teaching biology at New Jersey State Normal School, seems to have used nigrosin to stain, and therefore to see, these measles inclusion bodies...
...World, with a more opinionated candor and a more griped acquiescence he looks at U. S. history not on its level but reverentially from below and disgustedly from above, presents accordingly a vertically wall-eyed view of it. But his straightforward earnestness is as honest as his previous straightforward sight, and all U. S. readers will find themselves rising to their feet at Poet Masters' benediction...