Word: dec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would go into the U. S. Treasury as indirect repayment of the Tsarist and Kerensky debts which Stalin & Co. positively refuse to acknowledge as such. It was this refusal, still maintained, which caused Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes to lay down the doctrine: no payment, no recognition (TIME, Dec...
...would have been meaningless to chemists because there was no element corresponding to the symbol D. Now every chemist in the land knows that D2O means heavy water, that D is the symbol for the heavy isotope of hydrogen which Dr. Urey identified in the autumn of 1931 (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) and subsequently named deuterium. Undoubtedly in considering last week's award the Swedish Academy took cognizance of the fact that no discovery in the physical sciences in recent years has stimulated more widespread research than...
...November 1911 Scott started south from winter quarters on Cape Evans with dogs, ponies, sledges. On the way the ponies were killed to feed men and dogs. Phenomenally good weather was soon followed by blizzards. Deep snow held the party in a soft vise. On Dec. 14 Scott wrote, "We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook." That same day the famed Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, traveling fast by a different route, became the first man to reach the South Pole...
Soon snagged were the proceedings on a curious clause in a deed of separation which the Russells had signed in 1932. Entitled "Rose v. a Rose," it contained mutual forgiveness for all marital infidelities up to Dec. 31, 1932. Countess Russell charged her husband with adultery in 1933. "This mutual condonation prevents any inquiry into my adultery," said she, "which I admit because my husband condoned...
...able to box in at least one bout even if they do not make the team and encourages all who are interested in boxing to see him. Experience is not necessary as all now men start at scratch. The following schedule has been arranged for the Varsity this year: Dec. 15, M. I. T.; Jan. 12, Virginia at Charlottesville; Feb. 9, Springfield; Feb. 16, Army at West Point; Feb. 22, Pennsylvania; March 2, U. S. Coast Guard at New London, and Dec. 9, Yale...