Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even better are the Curtiss fighters bought and proved by France, for many more of which both Britain and France were ready to bid last week (see p. 16). A story in London's Sunday Pictorial last month was certainly calculated to put into the R. A. F. any...
The usual punishment in Nazi prison camps, according to the White Paper, for even slight offenses, such as failure to salute promptly, is "twenty-five strokes on the seat, carried out by two guards standing at each side with riding whips. The prisoner is lashed to a board. If he...
Naturally a swarm of newshawks, callous to the delicate distinctions of science, bore down on Dr. Pincus to find out how soon mammalian parthenogenesis could be applied to humans. The scientist dodged these embarrassing queries. A spokesman for him huffed: "Dr. Pincus' work will make possible certain manipulations and...
Testing normal men and women in a hotbox, the Hardy crew found that the women did not begin to perspire until the temperature of their skins was two degrees higher than "the threshold of sweating" in the men. This holding back is due to a more flexible metabolism in women...
Father Danforth went to Eugene Field's octogenarian widow, who repeatedly turned him down. Finally Father Danforth learned that there had been much jealousy between the families of Eugene Field and his brother Roswell, a lesser writer. By suggesting that he might move Roswell field's body to...