Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unopposed morning paper in rich, populous St. Louis, the Globe-Democrat has grown too rich and stodgy for its own good. Last week, this eminently respectable old newsorgan was haled to court to show why it should not be suspended as a penalty for having conducted a common lottery against the peace & dignity of the State of Missouri...
...appreciable letup in the Drought before 1938. A rain cycle is indicated by records of the water levels of the Great Lakes since 1837. . . . The cycle in the North Central farming and grazing zone has a 46-year swing, which is double the cycle for most areas on the globe. After this Drought there should not be another major dry period in the area until somewhere around...
...political feuds in the last half of the 19th Century was that between Republicans James Gillespie ("The Man from Maine") Elaine and New York's dandified, witty Roscoe Conkling. It started in 1866 when Representative Elaine accused Representative Conkling of having unfairly edited his remarks in the Congressional Globe, forerunner of the Congressional Record. It continued unabated when both graduated from the House to the Senate. It became nationally significant with the formation of Conkling's clique known as the "Stalwarts" which bitterly opposed every move of Elaine's following, the "Half Breeds, twice prevented Elaine from...
Last week Enrico Fermi had his picture taken holding a hollow globe of paraffin as big as a pumpkin, standing beside a piece of apparatus that looked like stovepipe put together with baling wire (see cut). Said Dr. Fermi: "The most obvious application of artificial radioactivity which can be foreseen is in the medicinal field. Radium, naturally radioactive, is used for the treatment of cancer. The completely new radioactive substances created in the laboratory should give medical men new tools, some of which may prove more efficient than radium...
...held back the flood last spring, had in one season saved more money than it cost. "It is a very excellent illustration of co-operation in boondoggling of the Federal and State Governments. Put that down Geoffrey," he added, turning to Geoffrey Parsons Jr., correspondent of the Republican Boston Globe, son of Chief Editorial Writer Geoffrey Parsons of the Republican New York Herald Tribune. Along the route the President complained that Vermont and New Hampshire had not done the upstream reforestation to prevent floods which they should have, that only 51% of Vermont's and 35% of New Hampshire...