Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not Japan's action was justified by China's treaty violation is beside the point. America and the world in general consider that it runs counter to moral law. In this country the feeling is that a Japanese whose only defect is his willingness to work hard for little pay can be a desirable citizen. But when the Japanese attack a dismembered nation struggling with the disasters of a flood, and refuse to join wholeheartedly in the peace-efforts of the world, prejudice is bound to influence people's judgment...
...often do you find an eminent young scientist shopping at the ribbon counter of a 5^ & 10^ store. Yet it was there that 30-year-old Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff, a Princeton graduate student (on a National Research Council fellowship) purchased the chief sinew of an invention, demonstrated publicly for the first time last week, of which President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. says: "[It] opens up the possibilities of transmutation of the elements on a commercial scale...
...gammas, the latter helpful in cancer). Artificial streams of alpha particles have been produced from vacuum tubes carrying as high as 650,000 volts. But the production of such voltages is expensive. 'The significance of Dr. Van de Graaff's purchase at the 5f/ & 10^ store ribbon counter was that he had discovered how to produce a current of electricity with light-ning-like force at a cost (for a small 1,500,000-volt machine...
...cordial shop is easily identified. It is a small, neat store in the window of which are some ginger ale or nonalcoholic liqueur bottles, or a pot of flowers. No longer is liquor on display inside; cautious vendors now keep it under a counter, behind a partition, or in an ice box out back. In some stores a prospective purchaser must bring an introduction or answer questions, but in most of them all comers are served with cheerful uniformity...
...seeking his fortune, returned when he had saved $500. He had worked in a grocery shop in New York, saw possibilities in the U. S. way of displaying and selling green groceries. His first shop in Glasgow was a success, with Proprietor Lipton behind the counter in white overalls and an apron. From the beginning he believed in advertising, kept his shop lighted at night, distributed handbills. Once in Glasgow he stopped traffic by having a sleek pig paraded through the streets bearing signs on its sides, "I am going to Lipton's. The best shop in town...