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Word: disturbes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will broadcast special radio signals from Arlington and Annapolis. WGY, Schenectady and WCSH, Portland, Me. will rebroadcast. Canadian National Railways Station CNRO, Ottawa will also broadcast. The day will probably be poor for radio reception because some sunspots are due to blow open Aug. 28 and 29. Sunspots always disturb radio communications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eclipse Day | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Ellendale to fly around with Station Director Thomas Lawlor this week. They are to take aloft a self-recording electroscope whose invention Dr. Millikan announced from Pasadena last week. It is ten times as sensitive to cosmic rays as any other electroscope he knows of. Vibration does not disturb it. Hence unlearned Army fliers are to take up replicas to heights of from 20,000 to 25,000 ft. Co-inventors of the new Millikan electroscope were Professors Ira Sprague Bowen. and Henry Victor Neher who works under Dr. Millikan at Caltech. The highest Dr. Millikan has sent an electroscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ray Circus | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Jews, especially during the years immediately following the War. Famed for negotiating with Dr. Julius Curtius, then German Foreign Minister, the Austro-German customs union (Zoll- verein), which ultimately was declared illegal by the World Court, Dr. Schober was known as the statesman who in 1931 "helped disturb the peace of Europe." His death followed by some three weeks that of his equally famed political rival, Mgr. Ignaz Seipel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Harris lived obscurely in her daughter's house, baking cakes and sleeping on a rickety settee. This state of affairs bothered the neighbors who thought Mrs. Templeton might treat her old mother more generously. It did not greatly disturb Mrs. Harris or Mrs. Templeton. Old Mrs. Harris remembered her big house in Tennessee whence the family had moved West. She took a quiet interest in the doings of her grandchildren, Victoria, Ronald, Adelbert. She was glad when Mrs. Rosen came over from next door to have a chat. When Mrs. Harris felt that she was going to die. she accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Short Cathers | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...soldier to risk everything in the service of his country. It is the misfortune of a soldier that his duty is the destruction of the property and lives of world neighbors. It is the pity of Peace that War stories must be trodded out of the cupboard to disturb the nerves of the world which need the tonic of good faith. Papen was a splendid soldier and is proving himself a good Chancellor, the Chancellor we want. He satisfies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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