Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Acting Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, is tired of having Ambassador Herbette walk in with diplomatic notes from powers who do not recognize Soviet Russia. He was tired the first time it happened. When Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson sent a reminder of Russia's obligation under the Kellogg Pact not to encroach upon China (TIME, Dec. 16), Bear Litvinov received it courteously enough from Ambassador Herbette, but figuratively growled at Statesman Stimson: "Mind your own business!" This time he was in an even nastier mood. For this time the French envoy...
...University of Michigan medical school, to confute Dr. Hrdlička on the rarity of tetrapodisis. Dr. Nittis, graduate of the University of Athens, is a Greek born on the British-owned island of Cyprus. According to Dr. Nittis, children there always amble about on all fours before they walk upright. Dr. Nittis never saw them go otherwise before he migrated to the U. S. He inquired of other Greeks, of Near Easterners, of Balkanese. Their children did likewise. The apparent rarity of tetrapodisis in the U. S., he decided, was because in cities and modern homes the movements...