Word: compounds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot solve these by acquiescence or acceptance and we will only compound and aggravate them by retaliatory action. On the other hand, if we are able to evolve the basis for a broad constructive solution, I believe we shall also make an important practical contribution to the promotion of stable international relationships...
...compound attribute expressed by the term "only Roman Catholic Chief Justice" is, if Senator Bruce is right, correctly attached to the name of nobody...
...Freshman football scrimmage yesterday Richard Warren, playing at quarterback, received a severe injury to his leg, which the doctors pronounced to be a compound fracture. Warren was immediately taken to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston...
...Multiplex System. Upon a 10-metre "carrier" wave, Mr. Hammond's multiplex sending instrument impresses modulations, much as a locksmith files teeth in a blank key. A set of eight modulations goes out with each compound signal of the set of eight messages. Physically, these modulations consist in alterations of the length of the carrier wave by fractions of a centimetre (down to 9.984 m., up to 10.016 m.). In the instrument that receives the multiplex or "scrambled" messages, one circuit is made sensitive to the carrier wave, other circuits to specific modulations thereon; much as the slot...
...leetle hour, I mek you 'appy," he promises his old friend,--to attempt to reproduce Alan Mowbray's quaint dialect with its compound of American, a plausible Spanish accent, and the twang of Oxford English. There is the mortgage. Pancho robs a bank and pays it. One or two individuals insist in getting in the way. Pancho's confrere, Pedre, points firearms at them. There is the offensive and superfluous husband. Pancho shoots him personally. "There! What you say, my frien'?" Are you not 'appy...