Word: core
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...alternatives, disintegration of the party seems the more likely; when face to face with the responsibility of smashing capitalism in Great Britain, they will choose rather to abdicate than to fight. Brought up on the patient parliamentarism of the Webbs, the Wallases, and Shaws, they are gradualists to the core; they deplore the fate of Social Democracy in Germany and in Italy and consider the Fascists really quite unsportsmanlike. With the 1931 debacle just behind them they issue a declaration of faith in Democracy rather than Dictatorship, and look askance at G. D. H. Cole and his companions...
...complete misnomer for the American aloe (Agave americana). In Mexico where it is called the maguey it takes only 15 years or so to store up the energy to bloom. Unblooming, it looks like an ordinary ground-palm: a rosette of long, pointed leaves spreading out from a central core. When its time comes it hastily pokes up a huge flowering stalk, thick as a tree trunk, from 15 to 40 ft. high, tops it with a huge cauliflower sprig with hundreds of little white or yellow tubular flowers. After holding this climax for a month, the tall stalk withers...
Last July a 50-year-old plant belonging to Charles Curie of Cornwall, N. Y. began pushing a stalk bud up through its central core. At once he had the plant dug out of his greenhouse and trucked to the Bronx Park Botanical Gardens where experts could replant it in the open and study its blossoming under natural conditions. Last month the stalk began to grow at the rate of an inch an hour, grew 15 feet high, put out 600 grey-green buds. For four successive weeks experts announced the century plant was about to bloom...
...Indies fortnight ago a mass of hot air began to rise to cooler levels, made heavy rain clouds. Strong Southwest winds hit them, piled them up into a storm, drove them forward, spun them round & round. Out of this counterclockwise rotation with a deep low pressure area at its core was gradually born a tropical hurricane which with a yell of fury headed northwest toward the U. S. coast line 1,000 miles away. As it skirted south of Bermuda it kicked up enormous seas, sent Bermudians scurrying to cover, kept three large liners from putting in at Hamilton...
...husband's traveling companion, Mantell, comb the city for the wandering architect, Travers learns that Lord Snarge is going to build a radio station on a Greek island. He is going to destroy the ruins of an ancient Temple to Apollo in so doing. Offended to the core, romantic Travers and a sailor named Bert, whom he picks up in a dockside restaurant, set out to thwart Snarge...