Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...economic question of determining what tariff is fair and equable. It involves the entire situation in China. China is a bundle of conflicting forces none of which is dominant. In the first place there is the Peking Government, nominally ruling the country but actually hardly more than painted drop screen in front of affairs. The Peking Government is extraordinarily weak. In South China its power is purely nominal. The great body of the people, 95% or more is illiterate and grossly ignorant, some 1,000,000 of its 325,000,000 population are under arms in the control...
...please drop me from your list...
Matter. Two years ago, Dr. Willis R. Whitney, head researcher for the General Electric Co., addressed the Society on The Vacuum-There's Something in It. Last week his title was Matter-Is there Anything in It? Very little, was the answer. Though a drop of water contains some three billion trillion (21 ciphers) hydrogen atoms, there is little that is really "solid" present. If each atom became as large as a raindrop, "they would cover the earth with a foot of water." Yet, "if we made ,one of these hydrogen atoms, which we used to think...
...find letters from God drop't in the street -and every one is signed by God's name...
...would further aid his navigators by having them drop, as they fly, minims of potassium permanganete upon the ice-floes. The purple stains moisture would make of these droppings would be readily visible trailblazers from quite a height, providing no snow fell...