Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Soviet statesmen were pained last week by what seemed to them an unreasonably abrupt decision on President Roosevelt's part to drop the game of "Let's Pretend," begun when Washington extended diplomatic recognition to Moscow (TIME, Nov. 27, 1933). The pretense, in Russian eyes, was exactly 50% of Mr. Roosevelt's making. He knew, as all the world knew, that the Soviet State has always had in Moscow the Comintern (see col. 3) which has as its avowed object the violent overthrow of the U. S. and all other non-Communist governments. Yet, knowing this...
Pantothenic Acid, apparently the one essential to the growth of all living substances, has been isolated by Professor Roger John Williams of Corvallis, Ore. All he possesses weighs less than half a drop of water. Yet that driblet is enough to lead to the synthesis of the potent stuff. Dr. Williams believes that pantothenic acid, a tiny amount of which has a remarkably stimulating effect on the growth of plants and single-celled animals, may be the long-hinted clue to why cancers grow so wildly...
Disaster was his from the start. He spent $600,000 drilling wells around Luling, some 60 miles from San Antonio. Not a drop of oil was found. His two geologists, having learnedly proved that the field was dry, packed up and went home. Creditors took his furniture. The banks declined to renew his notes. His neighbors, pointing to a new boundary survey, forced him to move his last drill from a spot he had selected to a spot which, he was afterwards convinced, Divine Providence had picked for him. The day the bank returned his check for $7.40 marked "Insufficient...
...nothing of the kind. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma was incensed. That Secretary Morgenthau should let the market drop out from under the speculators, that he should build up a silver reserve as cheaply as possible instead of spending as much as possible in doing so, seemed treason to the most politically precious of metals. "I thought," said Senator Thomas, "that we had a silver policy. But we haven't any ? other than to buy silver at the lowest possible price." Next day Senator Thomas and his silver friend, Senator McCarran of Nevada, took their revenge. As the price...
...part in a cinema. Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets on his private cricket field, encourages "Momma" Litman to cook when friends drop in for a party at his flat at No. 60 Park Lane. Leaving Mrs. Litman in the flat, Mr. & Mrs. Roy have rented another flat in the same building, eight floors above...