Word: cores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlanders, Royalists to the core, their matronly, plainly dressed Queen is the incarnation of virtue, sense of duty and respect for the Constitution. Forty years a Queen, Wilhelmina has been troubled with only 13 Cabinet changes, a record low for continental Europe. She has always tried to associate the people with her personal joys and sorrows, frequently using the radio to discuss affairs of State and Royal Family...
...emphasizes: "The civilians will be fighting, too." Every U. S. citizen will be mobilized in some fashion. Heart of the War Department's plans for civilians is its Industrial Mobilization Plan, to throw U. S. industry into war-time gear with a minimum of muddling, profiteering and confusion. Core of I. M. P. is a file of 10,000 cards in Washington's stuccoed Munitions Building...
...authors talk learnedly of "core courses" (e.g., "learning about living," in which English, science and social science are combined), tell what they did every step of the way through the six years. When they came to a new subject (such as communication), they divided into small groups to tackle separate topics, sent individual members out to hunt the answers to questions about the origin of human speech, the telephone, printing presses. By senior year they had explored many fields that ordinary high-school students seldom know-Columbus slums. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., the position of women...
Most of the planetary nebulae scattered across the sky are great shells of luminous gas. At the core is a star about 100 times as big as the sun. Last week Dr. Fred Lawrence Whipple of Harvard Observatory reported that he had calculated the average lifetime of planetary nebulae at 30,000 years-in astronomical time, a split second...
With U. S. Communists today, as is always true of Left-wing groups, numbers are not a conclusive gauge of strength. The Party looks upon itself as a hard and pervasive core within a vastly larger body. Having recently embraced a program so broad that no liberal citizen could oppose it in toto, Communists now claim that a vast majority of citizens favor it. For instance, a poll of 418 authors discloses that only California's Gertrude Atherton espouses Francisco Franco's cause. Communists are pleased, for they espouse the cause of Loyalist Spain. President Roosevelt frowns vaguely...