Word: botherations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start. When a spectator murmured an epithet, Fritz Kuhn roared: "Stand back! I'll ask the chairman to throw you out if you make remarks about me!" Chairman Dies threw out no spectators, but did ask newsreel cameramen to turn off their lights "because they bother Mr. Kuhn...
...lights don't bother me," snapped Fritz Kuhn...
Some farsighted industrial laboratories have long since recognized the value of pure science. At the General Electric laboratories, Irving Langmuir was told by the director not to bother with practical applications, but to find out what he could about what went on inside the bulb of an incandescent lamp. Thereafter Langmuir spent three years "investigating facts," discovered some-for example, that a bulb filled with nitrogen or argon works better than an evacuated bulb-which now save electricity consumers several million dollars...
...continual bother of solicitation by many local charities is avoided by the Council's agreement with these organ- isations that they will accept donations from it and forego personal canvassing. It should be remembered that these donations are made possible by students' contributions...
...Adolf Hitler-who have led their countrymen to believe that the other is the devil unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely take the trouble. They did not even bother to reveal who had undertaken the preliminaries to the greatest and quietest diplomatic about-face in modern European history...