Word: attached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factors-and to be skeptical of physical achievements such as Germany's vaunted rearmament. Free lances argue that the men in the profession are partly interested in the propaganda value of releasing juicy figures regarding the strength of presumed enemies, partly taken in by the tremendous enthusiasm which attachés in various foreign nations develop for the particular military machines that come under their eyes...
...miles from Moscow. Thus, last week after 23 hours and 36 minutes in the air, ended what had come close to being the longest east-west transatlantic flight. At Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., where a crowd of 5,000 waited in a drizzling rain, a Russian Embassy attachè announced the news when it came in by telegraph. Twelve little girls with garlands of flowers for the transatlantic heroes laid them down and went home...
Professor Shapley said astronomers attach much importance to the fact that the objects form an "Intermediate" type, midway between the ordinary spheroidal galaxy and the ordinary globular cluster...
...successful, efficient, intelligent, respectable bankers, businessmen, industrialists, community leaders, architects, engineers, etc., who build up a World's Fair in 1939-though they probably have a good many erotic activities-would attach very little significance to the physical relationship between a man and a woman...
Nature put soft tufts of fibre on cotton seeds so that the wind would carry them away from the plant to take root. Man came to attach more importance to the fibre than to the seeds, cultivated cotton for more fibre. The U. S. now raises too much cotton lint, not enough cottonseed.* But there is no economic reason for not raising cotton as a seed crop, since cottonseed oil makes oleomargarine, shortening, soap, and the cottonseed cake which remains after the oil is squeezed out makes good fodder for cattle...