Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...section applying to the Comptroller General, the Administration's majority against him stood at 4740-36. All this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come to a final test on Friday, he postponed the roll call over the week end to make his victory all the more one-sided. This almost turned out to be a serious error...
Last week 30 spectators flattened their noses curiously, against a bullet-proof glass wall in California's San Quentin prison to watch a preview of a lethal chamber which its makers, Eaton Metal Products Co. of Denver, thought would end all such doubt. Resting on a chair inside was a cage in which waited a small, reddish-brown pig. When a lever was pulled, dropping 16 cyanide eggs into pans of sulfuric acid, thin blue fumes began to rise toward the cage. The pig jumped, squealed, flapped its ears, rolled over. Like Allen Foster, the San Quentin pig died...
...week's end 30,000 workers jammed Buffalo Stadium in Paris, booed moderate French Labor Union Boss Léon Jouhaux completely off the stage with hoots and cries demanding French aid be sent to Leftist Spain...
...straight line. Negative curvature, which in mathematics simply involves a minus sign, cannot of course be visualized; but if such is the shape of the hypersphere, the universe must be "open"-i.e., infinite. Some theorists have suggested that the universe may not be spherical but hyperbolic-closed at one end, open at the other. The erection of Caltech's 200-inch telescope in California may possibly settle the question...
...travel Mr. Spear has collected bells from big to tiny, many of them old and odd, most of them ringable-the largest collection in the world. Last week proud Mr. Spear moved them all into his 34th Street Manhattan stores for their first public exhibition. At week's end he had not yet been induced to let loose a tintinnabulation...