Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These small, dark brown crickets have, however, a special sort of wing covers or tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...
...Japan, is so drawn that it runs on indefinitely unless denounced by one of the signatories. Two years' notice must be given of such denunciation and it cannot take effect before Dec. 31, 1936. To smash the 5-5-3 treaty on that earliest possible date, Japan must therefore file her denunciation promptly by Dec. 31, 1934. By that same token Ambassador Grew and team, representing the Powers in Tokyo, have a few more weeks in which to impress on the Japanese Government the colossal risks of denunciation...
...record will be an index card to be filled out with information concerning the influences to which he has been subjected, both hereditary and environmental, as well as his parents' origin, his schooling, and any other influences of which he may be conscious. These cards will be put on file in Widener Library with the records where they will always be available to students in phonetics and linguistics...
...right "in case of emergency" to purchase all petroleum in Japan at its own price, which may be below cost or purely nominal (i. e. confiscatory); 4) to ensure compliance with the law, foreign firms will be licensed to operate for only one year at a time and must file estimates of the amount of business they expect to do for several years in advance. Once an estimate has been accepted by the Government, all petroleum called for therein must be imported "irrespective of business conditions." Thus a huge oil reserve for the Japanese Navy must be piled...
...Chicago, beauteous Patricia Marquam, winner of the title "Queen of A Century of Progress," appeared in court to file suit for divorce. Said she: "It was my smile, my face, my figure-he said it was my radiant beauty-that first attracted Lauren Marquam. We were married last March 12. But the things that attracted Lauren attracted others too. The attentions I got made him impossibly jealous. Four days after we were married he was so jealous that he struck me. April 15 he hit me again and I left him. Think how jealous he would be now when...