Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...person would recognize. It is a multiple-choice examination using sample lists of "basic" and "derived" words from Funk & Wagnails' unabridged dictionary, which lists 450,000 words in all. Dr. Seashore's test includes common words as well as puzzlers like antisialogogue (an agent preventing the flow of saliva). Last week he reported the surprising discovery that the average college student has a recognition vocabulary of 176,000 words-62,000 "basic" and 114,000 "derived...
...Catholic Church for three years to annul his own aristocratic marriage. Austria is deeply Catholic and wise Rome was unwilling to annul the marriage of a Vice-Chancellor of Austria so that he might marry an actress. II Duce esteemed that the Pope was right, shut off the flow of Italian money to the Prince, and Catholic Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg of Austria neatly wangled Starhemberg out of his Vice-Chancellory. After that Rome annulled Starhemberg's marriage (TIME...
...department of Mechanical Engineering is under the leadership of Professor Lionel S. Marks, assisted by Professor C. H. Berry. Professor Marks is widely recognized for his work on axial flow fans which have been brought to their present state of development largely through his efforts. In addition, he is the Editor in Chief of one of the most widely used reference works on mechanical engineering, and his investigations of the properties of saturated and super-heated steam, in collaboration with Professor Harvey Davis, formerly of the Graduate School of Engineering and now President of Stevens Institutes of Technology, resulted...
...might entail. To a press conference, he announced his intention of asking Congress to reduce next year's Federal subsidies for State highways by about $110,000,000. Paradoxically, while business would like the prospect of a balanced budget, it would also like the immediate stimulus of a flow of Government spending. Equal to this apparent dilemma, Franklin Roosevelt told the same press conference that he would urge Government departments to spend current appropriations totaling $245,000,000 for upkeep and supplies at once instead of spreading them over the next seven months...
...hand of Shakespeare, but the voice of someone more like Leftist Playwright Clifford Odets. Manhattan play-goers took the play's smooth unmetered flow, its indubitable 1937 flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...