Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NUSAS does not include the four Afrikaans-speaking universities of Stellenbosch, Pretoria, Orange Free State, and Potchefstroom. These schools broke away in the 1930s to form their own organization--the Afrikaanse Studentbond...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEA TER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A difficult time in the life of 1930s Blues Singer Lee Wiley, starring Piper Laurie and Claude Rains...
...clouds picked up in the 1930s, Low's views assaulted the conscience of all England. He created the character of Colonel Blimp, a florid beefeater with a walrus mustache who symbolized British complacency in the teeth of the 20th century's storms. From a Turkish bath, the colonel sprayed his nonsense at a mute companion who looked suspiciously like Cartoonist Low. "Gad, sir," said the colonel, "Hitler is right. The only way to teach people self-respect is to treat 'em like the curs they are." Japan was right, too, in the Blimpian Olympus: Keeping the white...
...manager of San Francisco's prestigious Halsted & Co., for which he has been "selling funerals," as they say in the trade, for 30 years. "But I do know that this generation seems to want things done more simply. It's probably the most significant trend since the 1930s, when people stopped hanging crepe on their doors, and funeral services were moved from the family living room to the mortuary chapel...
...problem besetting ordinary stainless steel: sharpening it. An Uddeholm scientist 40 years ago devised a method for aligning the chromium particles into an even pattern so that the stainless blade could be honed as keenly as carbon steel. Uddeholm sold batches of that steel to Gillette in the 1930s, but stainless blades did not catch on because shavers found them irregular in quality. A sudden and tremendous demand began a year ago, after Britain's Wilkinson Sword Ltd. brought out a blade coated with silicon plastic to make it smooth as well as sharp.* Wilkinson's steel comes...