Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invented by a patient Polish physician, Lazaro Ludovico Zamenhof, who published his work in 1887. His language looks like a Balkan patter, sounds like a Romance patois. Though it runs on rules like rails, it lends itself to precise shades of meaning. In 1921, as a test, the Paris Chamber of Commerce had two Esperantists translate delicate texts of French into Esperanto, then had two others turn them back into French; the final texts were almost identical with the originals. The language has only 16 simple rules of grammar, to which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary is compounded...
...hull. Said a Netherlander named Eelke Ryn de Beer last fortnight: "I was standing at the edge of the dredger when suddenly at three metres distance I saw how the gold glittered!" It was a bar weighing 120 ounces, worth about $4,000. The scoops had reached the treasure chamber. Then the sand caved in again over the ship; for three days the scoops worked furiously, finally last week brought up a cannon...
Last week, the U. S. Navy reported a successful dive to 402 ft., using the helium-oxygen mixture. The Navy record was still 18 ft. short of Nohl's mark. The Navy also announced an "artificial dive" in a pressure chamber duplicating the pressure 500 ft. down, indicating that actual dives to that grim depth may soon be accomplished...
...Last week Mr. Earle, embroiled in a fight to clear his name of grave charges (political corruption, blackmail, extortion, conspiracy to defraud the Commonwealth), turned on Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, said it was threatening a "judicial dictatorship" like the Inquisition, the Bloody Assizes, the Court of the Star Chamber. He urged a special session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly to investigate not only him but also the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, for "gross abuse" of its authority in "a shameless political conspiracy engineered by the Republican leadership ... a barrage of poison...
After the ceremony, as the King and Queen drove off to rejoin their train and be whisked to the Channel, then to England, a young Deputy of the French Chamber arose and recited in English to the gathering of French and Australian officials...