Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he was himself a small, Ethiopian orphan, the future diplomat attached himself to a marauding band of British troops who in 1868 burst into his country under General Napier on what Queen Victoria called a "punitive expedition." The little waif had an appealing way with him. A Scottish officer took him along to India, gave him the name "Martin," had him educated as a physician in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Dr. Martin retired on a pension after 29 years of duty in the Indian Medical Corps. About this time Ethiopia's great Emperor Menelik heard of Dr. Martin, summoned...
Ordinary regal lilies are dehiscent: the pollen-bearing anthers swell, burst open, shower sticky golden dust on the blossoms, marring their virginal immaculacy. GE's lily, which owes its existence to Engineer Chester Newell Moore, is non-dehiscent. Mr. Moore was experimenting with the effects of x-rays on genes and chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ-plasm). He irradiated 75 bulbs of regal lilies. Nothing noteworthy happened to the first generation, but among the second-generation freaks were two flowers whose anthers shriveled without releasing their pollen. From these two Engineer Moore obtained a true-breeding strain...
International swanksters recalled the recent marriage of Manhattan Socialite Marjorie Oelrichs to Jazzman Eddie Duchin whose Central Park Casino orchestra used to burst into the flattering strains of Margie whenever she arrived (TIME, June 17). Raja Brooke's jazz-struck Eliza was for a time a friend of languorous Scottish Actor Jack Buchanan who used to sing Eliza to her and nearly got her a part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets...
Meanwhile the Japanese Cabinet, just before the Vanity Fair incident burst, tried last week to settle the recent months of quarrel about Emperor Hirohito's exact status by a solemn and fervent pronouncement. Excerpt...
Last week in Arbuckle. Calif, an oil truck collided with a passenger car, burst into flames. The truck driver, pinned in his cab, roasted slowly to death while helpless onlookers sprayed water...