Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trousers were still one piece." At 17 he shipped to the U. S. After clerking for a shipping line, he landed a job in Cook's London office. The World War found him skittering about as a British Intelligencer, an experience which brought him many a fruitful contact ("I know all the little back doors...
...hand when a boy. Before returning to Washington, he went out to look over his new crops (69 acres corn, 32 acres oats, ten acres soy beans). Said he: "Farmers have for the first time in history become conscious of their relationship to the Government through direct contact with it and help from...
...landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested, but Japanese marines batted him over the skull with a gun-butt. What happened next is not clear. Japanese claimed Tinkler threatened them with a revolver, observed that "he came into contact with Japanese bayonets." One thing was clear, however: Tinkler slowly bled from internal hemorrhage during the 20 hours the Japanese kept him incommunicado. That night he was taken, not to the International Settlement, but to a hospital in Japanese-controlled Hongkew where two Japanese & two German surgeons performed an emergency operation...
...male to female and vice versa. Hormone A, from the female, causes the male fungus to put out shoots. The shoots produce Hormone B, which goes back to the female, initiates the growth of egg-containers. The egg-containers manufacture Hormone C, which attracts the male shoots so that contact is effected (up to ranges of one-third inch). Hormone D, from the male shoots, stops the growth of the female egg-containers when they are of proper size...
Three hours after she had submerged, the Thetis was nowhere to be seen and her accompanying tug, which had lost contact with her, wirelessed ashore: "Something is amiss." A few uneasy relatives of the crew began to gather at the Birkenhead shipyards of Cammell Laird & Co., Ltd., builders of the Thetis. A flotilla of salvage ships, warships, tugs and submarines set out from ports from Birkenhead all the way round the bottom of England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface...