Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dorothy Steeves is a member of British Columbia's Provincial Legislature. One day last week she went to bat. She never got to first base, for before she uttered a word, she had four strikes against her: she was a woman, a Socialist, a foreigner by birth, an empire-hater by conviction. "Enemies of peace," she cried, "are not all in Germany or Russia. They are right here. They are those who refuse to relinquish vested interests. . . . That word empire is connected with a history of horror and slaughter. I hope to see it disappear from our vocabulary...
...Meantime another freighter, the British Coulmore, became another ship-of-the-week. During heavy weather at night, 500 miles east of Nantucket, she radioed she had been attacked by a submarine, wanted rescuing. To the spot rushed U. S. Coast Guard cutters and destroyers and the U. S. press got excited because Coulmore's message placed her near the zone where the Panama Conference and President Roosevelt had forbidden belligerents to operate...
...element at all. This process, called parthenogenesis, occurs naturally among certain insects, has been artificially induced by man in sea urchins and frogs, but never before in a mammal. Dr. Pincus used high temperature, hormone treatments and hypertonic salt solutions* to fertilize the ovum, and his canny microsurgical technique got the egg well started toward normal development in the host mother's reproductive tract...
...After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither her distracted family banished her. Three years later she got a scholarship from Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony Society. One year after that famed Conductor Otto Klemperer heard her play, and hired her to solo with the newly formed Pittsburgh Symphony...
...serials, like Stella Dallas, Backstage Wife, etc. on small stations for night-time broadcasting. One prospect was Elliott Roosevelt's 24-station Texas State Network. But when Elliott and Blackett tried to get permission to take transcriptions of the shows off NBC and CBS wires, they got a royal runaround...