Word: considerable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To give an example or two: consider a day where the ordinary dry bulb thermometer reads 86°, and the relative humidity is 93%. The wet bulb temperature would be 84°. . . .
After striking this blow, Times Editor Geoffrey Dawson was still in good enough standing to lunch with His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax. While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper...
By no means willing to consider 10% loans an individual rather than a union matter, Guild leaders stood up to Publisher Stern even when, last fortnight, he threatened to close down the Post in 48 hours. Then Mr. Stern did some telephoning. That he telephoned President Roosevelt, told him he...
It is also true that network contracts are signed on the basis of 13-week periods and continuing contracts hang over from prosperous times into depression months. Radio's big first quarter this year was swelled with much of this continuing business, and it contributed mightily to the handsome...
Many scientists accept the theory that sunlight influences conception and hence that Eskimos are sterile during the long Arctic nights. In last week's Science, Zoologist Wayne L. Whitaker of the University of Michigan rose to defend Eskimo potency. Analysis of all the births in West Greenland between the...