Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yield. This year for the first time half of Russia's grain was to be harvested by combine, but as by June 11 Pravda and Izvestia reported, only 46% of the combines had received needed repairs. Spare parts were missing, experienced mechanics and drivers lacking, while in certain districts old machinery had not been repaired at all. A repetition of last year's inability to harvest vast areas, including one section of 500,000 acres, threatened. In addition, peculiar weather conditions in some regions caused winter and spring wheat to ripen at the same time, made a doubly...
David Low's first published cartoon was printed in a New Zealand paper in 1902, when he was eleven years old. It represented the local authorities as lunatics because of their reluctance to remove certain trees that obstructed traffic. Ever since that time he has pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David...
...Heiser quoted a now-classic experiment : "Sir Robert McCarrison established in India [in the early 1920s] a thoroughly healthy rat colony. The [1,189] stock rats were fed a diet similar to that eaten by certain peoples of northern India, among whom are some of the finest physical specimens of mankind. The diet consisted of whole-wheat flour, unleavened bread lightly smeared with fresh butter, sprouted Bengal gram (legume), fresh raw carrots and cabbage, unboiled whole milk, a small ration of raw meat with bones once a week. . . . During two and a quarter years [about 70 years for human beings...
...public common sense about eating. But most people who can afford to eat well eat unwisely, pour enormous quantities of oils, sugars and refined starches into their overworked digestive engines. "If a diet is correctly balanced," said Dr. Heiser, "a smaller quantity of food will suffice." Certain it is that middle-aged persons who keep slightly underweight have a good chance of outliving their self-indulgent friends. Facts on food...
...Gerald, Premier Duke, Marquess & Earl of Ireland, was not domiciled in Scotland. To prove it the court quoted from his earlier declaration: "My departure from Scotland has been really to suit my wife. She one said she could not live with blackfaced sheep and lochs and I saw a certain amount of truth in that...