Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviets borrowed extensively from British, French, Swiss, and German law in formulating their own legal code, Berman continued. Therefore Soviet law curiously contains bourgeois terms such as contract and inheritance, even though its nature is decidedly socialistic. It does not bother with individual rights but has been set up as a means to administer the socialistic plan...
Some nine years ago, a Swiss chemist named Paul Müller was busy in a laboratory in Basel, looking for a drug to protect plants against insects. Trying one combination of chemicals after another, he finally found one that killed flies. He took some of the stuff home, and discovered that it killed mosquitoes too. Dr. Mller's compound was dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane...
Symphonie Pastorale (Jean Delannoy) is a subtle, emotionally complex story about a blind orphan (Michele Morgan) and a married Swiss pastor (Pierre Blanchar) who shelters, schools and raises her from a little wild animal into a lovely young woman. The pastor is the last to realize that his fatherly affection is really only a thin disguise for a lover's jealous passion. His wife (Line Noro) is a bitter, knowing onlooker. Just to complicate things, his son (Jean Desailly) also falls in love, but quite openly, with the girl...
...Swiss Davos, where the crocuses still bloomed and the cowbells tinkled, Bemelmans found the tuberculous rich coming again to the magic mountain from the four corners of the world. "The smoke from the disinfecting plant drifts up the side of a hill, and this Grand Hotel fashion of luxurious dying away from home is sadder than any other I have seen. The graves here lie in greater and more aching lonesomeness than soldiers' graves, in foreign lands...
...suggesting an alternative, the President holds the same views which prompted his support of the Compton Report on Universal Military Training in 1947. As an educator he sees advantages in the so-called Swiss plan: subjecting men from 18 to 28 to three or four summer camps of two or three months each and evening drill, presumably once a week, for ten years. If he wished, the eligible youth could volunteer for two years immediate service instead...