Word: got
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wasn't inclusive enough. They got no further than slinging a futile wrench into the academic machinery...
...got wise...
...split-pea industry was seriously threatened by importations from China. A Port Huron, Mich., witness extolled the power-producing qualities of U. S.. split-pea soup. In a test, he said, cross-country runners were fed for 16 days on split-pea soup and they got 65 miles to the gallon...
...expected divine wrath to crush the enemies he himself could not subdue. He could be suave, diplomatic, dignified. But the Kings and Emperors of Europe, like gnats, pestered him till he seemed no more the Vicar of God, but a petty, earthly prince whose lands the Kings wanted?and got...
...world's radium under Belgian Government control, was restricting that valuable metal's production. The Belgian pitchblende mines, whence the related radium, polonium and lead are refined, are at Katanga, Belgian Congo. Those mines have far outdistanced the Jackinov mines in Czechoslovakia where Becquerel and the Curies got their first pitchblende supplies. Other, but at present little used, sources of radium are autunite deposits in Portugal, betafite deposits in Madagascar, carnotite deposits in Colorado and Australia. These sources might be worked intensively if the British M. P.'s asseverations are true, that Belgium can easily produce...