Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formidable body of informed opposition to Professor Warren and his money philosophy; no one is more fitted to lead that opposition than Dr. Sprague. Our hope lies in the efficiency with which Dr. Sprague and his followers can force their way to dominance at Washington, and with a money bug Congress in the offing, that movement cannot be too quickly begun. Until the Tuesday statement of the Federal Reserve banks shows that credit is leaving the stagnant stage, the bankers will be an obstacle to industrial recovery. And they will not leave that stagnation, and pledge themselves and their depositors...
...that. But now he has spoken out loud and bold to the British Commons, telling them that "it is useless for me to remain here for months unless the attitude (of the various delegations) changes." Disheartening as is this indication of the inflammatory material waiting for a fire-bug, it is nonetheless pleasing to see Mr. Henderson take on the unaccustomed garb of realism; he wears it with the surprising air of a tweeded sophomore, but that he wears is at all is enough...
...achievement of its militant makers the B. S. A. (Birmingham Small Arms) munitions trust (Lee-Enfield rifles) who also make popular priced cars called simply ''B. S. A.'s." Smartest of medium-priced British sports cars today is the "M. G.," a rip-roaring little red bug made by sedate Morris Garages...
...Valcour. Inspector Ellery & staff turn the theatre upside down, invade the musicians' room, wardrobe room, property room, and even, amid terrified squeals, the backstage quarters of the naked ladies of the ensemble. They question everyone: unholy Siebenkase (Bela Lugosi of Dracula); Madame Tanqueray, the wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns...
...extracted potent drugs (adrenalin, cholesterol, ergosterol, and two digitalis-like substances) which modern scientific medicine considers indispensable. Apparently toads do not use these potent drugs in their own economies. When Dr. Chen removed the glands from several toads, they seemed as well as ever, pursued their proper business of bug hunting. Prospective toad farmers should note that a toad produces only one crop of drugs. The extirpated glands do not grow back...