Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such a delightful informality is certainly an indication of our changing athletics. One can hardly venture to assert what will take place when seven house crews take to the Charles simultaneously. Perhaps the authorities will find it necessary to provide the shells with ash trays and bottle openers, but at all events one hopes the boats will not degenerate into beer kegs manned by topers...
...Company. Allied is a holding company whose operations may be divided into five groups: The Solvay Process Division produces soda ash and caustic soda, in both of which products there was unexpected price-cutting during December when 1931 contracts were being made. Earnings from this division are thought to be running 40% below last year. Its big competitor is Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc. When it was absorbed by Allied, the Solvays of Belgium, one of Europe's richest families, acquired much Allied stock. They also have a big interest in Imperial Chemistry Industries of Britain...
With the funds that remain the committee has made tentative plans to purchase ash trays with, and to distribute them among the members of the dormitory...
Synthetic Life. When last month news slipped out that George Washington Crile, Cleveland medico-scientist, had created living cells, laymen gasped, scientists doubted (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week, scientists had a chance to see for themselves. Brain fats, proteins and ash from apparently dead body cells, placed in water containing normal body salts, formed minute structures which multiplied by dividing in two. Many still doubted synthetic life, spoke of a new scientific tool...
...With ash trays at their elbows the Supreme Court judges smoked incessantly, seemed frankly bored. Their President Comrade Alexy Vyshinsky, also presided at the Schakhta Trial. Two of the judges had come to the Supreme Court Bench directly from their workbenches in a Moscow and a Leningrad factory...