Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...runs amuck. It rasps an ear of corn against his teeth, it shoves bolts into his mouth, and it bashes in his face with its automatic wiper. But this choice is just a matter of opinion, and besides, clumsy word accounts fall hopelessly short of Chaplin's elusive mirth. Drop whatever you're doing, and go see for yourself...
...around the sun, the slowed motion of solar atoms, the expanding universe. Albert Einstein, however, has refrained from putting up any "No Trespassing" signs around his mathematical edifice. He has done some mending himself, particularly on the shape of the cosmos, and he is glad to have other mathematicians drop in for a little tinkering. Modern relativity theory in fact owes a great deal to the carpentry of Weyl, Milne, Lemaitre, Born, Eddington, Tolman and others. But the good professor keeps a sharp eye on the craftsmanship of his colleagues...
...about International is that it did not go into receivership or a 77-6 reorganization during a period when nearly every other big newsprint company in North America did. By the end of 1934, President Graustein had cut bank loans to $15,000,000, though utility profits continued to drop and newsprint was, and still is, selling near its Depression...
Like peep shows, short stories may give a knothole glimpse of real life or a nickel's worth of artifice. Authors Ben Hecht and Kay Boyle are as different as slot machine and peephole. Readers who like their money's worth of entertainment will drop their nickel in Author Hecht; those who want life in the psychological raw will squint through the fence at Author Boyle's queer back yard...
...matter who produces raw materials, they must be sold in the open, capitalist market-in other words, they must be sold for profit. If they are priced too high, they cannot be sold, and the price will have to drop. What good will it do Italy, Japan and Germany to control colonies and supplies of raw materials? Japan excepted, none of them has sufficient capital to develop colonial industries. Yet each is prepared to squander millions on colonial wars, to obtain goods they can already get, from countries with years of experience in producing them...