Word: balding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plains was releasing numberless tons of soil on the wind and making vast reaches of new desert, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace last spring sent an expedition to the Gobi Desert where, he knew, were sturdy grasses which could outlive extremes of cold and heat and drought. Expedition leader was bald, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, painter, mystic, founder of Manhattan's Roerich Museum, habitué of Central Asia (TIME...
Last week Dr. Carrel was, as usual, vacationing in a chateau near Lyons in his native France. And, as usual, what the Press wanted to hear him talk about was his famed assistant at the Institute. The small, bald, 62-year-old scientist duly obliged: "Lindbergh is considered . . . exclusively as a flyer . . . but he is much more than that. He is a great savant. Men who achieve such things are capable of accomplishments in all domains...
...narrow passage to an underground room, through heavy air that muffled footfalls, discouraged talk. In that uneasy silence the body, clad in the uniform of a Red Commander with a shroud over the legs, lay on a block of black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure shielded lights glowed on the waxy features of the man who proclaimed the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Other light there was none. Through that gloom, by last week...
What slim, ascetic Dr. Sigmund Freud is to Psychoanalysis, bald, beefy Major Clifford Hugh Douglas is to Social Credit. The Major, a Scottish engineer, a graduate of Cambridge and a cousin of Lord Weir, once worked for Westinghouse in India, now has his swank abode in London and contrives to rent his ideas for fat fees. In 1934 the Alberta Government which was thrown out last week paid him $30,000 to go to Calgary and expound views which they proceeded to ignore but which fired High School Principal William Aberhart and his Prophetic Bible Institute, spurred them...
...they did not mean that Dictator Stalin would abolish the Comintern or move it out of Russia. Since this was never contemplated, Soviet leaders have assumed from the first that Mr. Roosevelt was joining them in an elaborate political pretense. Last week many Reds were amazed when bald, able U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt marched into the Soviet Foreign Office and smacked down a note so harsh that it stopped just short of an ultimatum...