Word: bearse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since the war in China started six weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt has been embarrassed by the fact that, until war was declared, he could scarcely apply the Neutrality Act without making a bad situation worse. Last week's embargo appeared to bear the same relation to an official...
Among the 2,000,000 Manhattanites who observed high holy days during the past fortnight were some 600 black Jews in Harlem. Of these a few are converts but most are Negroes of Semitic origin from Africa-chiefly Ethiopia, whose Coptic Church bears some Hebrew ritual traits. Harlem's...
Lemon. Another who in youth tried his hand at business (insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon...
In Gaylord, Mich., black bears have been invading the pig pen at a CCC camp. They push the pigs out of the way and greedily eat the food from their trough.
Jacob mushrooms grow in concrete, aluminum-painted "houses" which are filled with beds of manure compost and kept pitch-dark. Lumps of spawn are pushed into the compost about eight inches apart. In three weeks fine, white, hairlike mycelia extend from top to bottom. Then a "casing" of loam is...