Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the Medical School has come word of the latest contribution of science to the art of good living. Oxygen is threatening the traditional supremacy of alcohol as general "pick-me-up." Drawn into the lungs in quick, deep breaths, it is said to produce effects quite similar to those of alcohol. Those who champion the superiority of alcohol point to the awesome "hang-overs" which they allege result from oxygen "jags." Others, however, deny this allegation and recommend oxygen in preference to the best Scotch...
...recommendation for new taxes, which Congress was impatiently awaiting in order to perform its election-year duty of going home as quickly as possible. In favor of it was the fact that Secretary Morgenthau was absent attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, and the President's deep desire to be present in Cambridge when Harvard's Fly Club initiated his youngest son, John...
...Washington's birthday 4,000 spectators lined up in ankle-deep slush along the river. Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth...
Fels & Co. is a family-owned concern with a model 23-acre plant in Philadelphia. Like its soap formulas, its production, profits and other internal affairs are deep Fels secrets. Last week, therefore, U. S. financial editors rubbed their eyes when they received a brief news release announcing that Fels & Co. had just paid its 35th annual employe bonus. Lowest payment amounted to 22½% of a worker's yearly wages. Attributed to President Fels was this statement: "We are happy that through depressions as well as in periods of prosperity . . . we have been able to pay a bonus...
...deep fastness of Eastern Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than 100 frontier "incidents" as the Japanese Empire and its vassals steadily encroached toward the Soviet Union. Russia has been afraid to fight back, so Japan has found year after year. Finally and historically, Russia and her vassals began to fight back in earnest last week. This outburst of undeclared...