Word: aridity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russian Reds and Whites cannot live together in amity, but one parti-colored dead man they proudly own in common. Last week, on the hundredth anniversary of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin's death, for once both Reds and Whites sang together like so many harmonious morning stars. Arid for once, the burden of their song was praise: praise for Pushkin, Russia's No. 1 poet. To most U. S. readers, Pushkin is still only a funny name. Much of his poetry has been translated, but most of it reads like doggerel.* To that the all- Russian retort...
...Wisconsin state line, south to Kankakee, west to the Illinois River. Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. is principally concerned with selling gas to Chicagoans, gas made from coal and gas piped in from the Southwest. From this company James Simpson retired in 1935 because he felt management of gas arid electric companies in Chicago should be distinct. Last week, three days before he was 63, handsome, grey-suited Utilitarian Simpson went before a special meeting of Edison stockholders, asked for permission to put together all the old Insull utility companies in Northern Illinois except Peoples Gas into one great Chicagoland...
...money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft); a crooked judge and a traprock official are suspended by the Dutch merrymen in the bucket of one of their own steamshovels; arid three youthful bank robbers play hide-&-seek with...
...receiving end. In radio-telephony-as between the shore and a ship at sea, for example-the voice is converted into waves of radiation which travel through the air. But weaves of radiation at radio frequencies can also be guided along a cable, if the stations are fixed arid if the cable can carry a wide enough frequency band. Such an arrange ment enables the cable-carried waves to be fortified by amplifiers at intervals along the route, minimizes tonal losses due to static and fading. Such a cable is the famed coaxial cable developed by American Telephone & Telegraph...
...offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles away. By night the glare of their floodlights keeps housewives awake in neighboring suburbs. Before next spring. Flushing Meadows will be ready for the installation of water, gas, electricity arid drainage. By spring of 1938 they will be meadows indeed, fit for the Fair buildings...