Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Massachusetts town that fails properly to support its public schools may be fined an amount twice its biggest annual school expenditure. Recently Woburn's Mayor William E. Kane cut the schools' allowance. Woburn's teachers went unpaid. Thereupon they complained to the State Attorney General. Fortnight ago a Middlesex County grand jury solemnly indicted the City of Woburn, Inc. for school nonsupport. This week the town goes on trial. If it is convicted Woburn taxpayers may be fined...
...some years Dr. Irving Langmuir of General Electric Co. has investigated the properties of monomolecular layers- that is, oil films, one molecule thick. He finds that in such layers molecules all stand on end, lined up in the same direction; that layers any number of molecules thick could be built up on a pane of glass by repeatedly dipping it in water covered with a monomolecular film. All this, however, came under the head of "pure-science" research...
...days before retiring as U. S. Attorney General, 68-year-old Homer Stille Cummings, class poet at Yale in 1891, confessed that he had written two volumes of poetry during his six years in office. Said he: "I doubt seriously that they will ever see the light...
...Hollywood, where-contrary to general belief-night clubs rarely flourish, famed Earl Carroll last week opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast, equipped with almost an acre of floor space, patent-leather ceiling, two concentric revolving stages...
Married. Major General James Guthrie Harbord, 72, board chairman of Radio Corp. of America, onetime chief of staff of the American Expeditionary Forces in France; and Anne Lee Brown. 55, great-granddaughter of Light Horse Harry Lee; both for the second time; in Rapidan...