Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perrin reported last week was the existence of ekarhenium in pitchblende ore, mother substance of radium. His collaborators used a powerful spectroscope, which splits up radiations from atoms into significant bands and lines. When the pitchblende was analyzed, four faint new lines appeared. Calculation showed that these lines must belong to ekarhenium...
...fearful last month that their luck might be running out (TIME, July 18). Last week they learned officially that it was running out indeed. On the heels of a manifesto drawn up by ten Fascist savants, declaring that Italians are "Aryan, Nordic and heroic" and that "Jews do not belong to the Italian race," came announcement from Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace that the Government had prepared a series of laws to "defend the race against all contamination...
...years. Pounding home his recently-repeated point that "Catholic means universal," the Pope said: "We regard racism and exaggerated nationalism as barriers raised between man and man, between people and people, between nation and nation. ... All men are, above all, members of the same great kind. They all belong to the single great family of the living. Humankind is therefore a single, universal catholic race." Added Pius XI: "One wonders why Italy should have needed to imitate Germany so unfortunately...
...cinema stars belong to a social class of their own which has no equivalent in England. This does not inconvenience Gracie Fields who prefers to live in a style more in keeping with her humble origins. In London, her most ostentatious possession is a red brick house on Finchley Road. She sold her Rolls-Royce because "it was too posh for me,'' rides in a Buick...
...colleagues, still believes the rays to be particles. The retraction he made last week concerned their place of origin. He once believed they came from the remotest depths of space beyond the Milky Way, which is the huge galaxy of stars to which the sun and its planets inconspicuously belong. The disc-shaped Milky Way appears to be slowly rotating like an enormous wheel. Therefore, if the rays come from outside the galaxy, whichever side of Earth happens to be facing the direction of rotation should receive a few more rays than the back of the planet, just...