Word: divisional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Montgomery Ward & Co. in its Kansas stores hires extra saleswomen to work on rush Saturdays, pays them for that day only. Last week an official of Kansas' Division of Unemployment Compensation ruled that since Montgomery Ward's extras are partially employed, they are partially unemployed, therefore are due...
In Germany an unprecedented peace time mobilization of 2,000,000 men was under way. Division after division moved into the Limes Line, there to face the French poilus long ago shoved into the Maginot Line. Into East Prussia, already an armed camp, went more antiaircraft regiments, and a narrow...
Brag or Fight. Robert Hooke was an able, mechanically talented scientist who suffered the misfortune to be a 17th-Century contemporary of the great Isaac ("Falling Apple") Newton. He was embittered by having to live in the shadow of Newton's greater glory. But frustrated Robert Hooke saw, named...
Nature of the Egg. One of the first such controversies in which he engaged was over the widely held notion of late 19th-Century science that a fertilized egg before starting to grow by cleavage (cell division)-and even for a time afterwards -was just so much undifferentiated raw material...
Second Division. After the first division between laymen and churchmen over Darwin came a second division between scientists who did not question that evolution was a fact. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection declined in scientific favor. This "eclipse of Darwinism" began in the 19th Century, reached into...