Word: cased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into office came Edward M. Heath, machine man, as first assistant attorney general. His first act was to appear before a three-judge court, beg that a certain hearing be postponed for two days until he could familiarize himself with the details of the case...
Winnie Ruth Judd stuffed cans of soup, spaghetti, bread and a jar of jelly in a pillow case, stole two pairs of shoes, left a maundering letter to Governor Robert T. Jones, and slipped out. For 15 minutes she appeared at the nearby bedside of her invalid, 80-year-old father, then vanished in the night. Police watched her invalid 56-year-old husband, Dr. William C. Judd, in Sawtelle, Calif., Hospital Superintendent Louis Saxe broadcast a promise: she could run the prison beauty parlor if she'd return. One night this week a burglar fled from a Phoenix...
...centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic gravity over a long time, or that when the stars originally were formed from the parent nebula, conditions favored the formation of big stars in the region of greatest density. In either case the Cepheid variables seem destined to shed further light on cosmic history...
Meanwhile London's universities were in even sadder case. The Government ordered the unwilling University of London out of town, dispersed its various colleges and departments to about a dozen places. One university professor refused to be driven. To his workshop, the Galton laboratory, established by famed Geneticist Sir Francis Galton, marched bearded, burly Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher with two women assistants. When guards stopped the assistants, Professor Fisher used his fists, succeeded in storming his own laboratory. There he patched up his party's wounds, went grimly to work...
...Recent figures show that though visible (about-to-be-shipped) silk stocks in Japan are the smallest in years, speculators are holding thousands of pounds in the interior. And the Japanese Government, which strictly forbids speculation in other commodities, does not mind in this case. > Textile-statisticians last spring observed that there was a discrepancy in Japanese silk statistics. The Japanese said that domestic consumption of silk goods was sharply up, they said elsewhere that production of silk fabrics was declining instead of increasing. Last week this discrepancy no longer existed. Reason: the Japanese had given up publishing statistics...