Word: grains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopians do not consider themselves Negroes," continued Negro Julian, adjusting his Ascot and eyeing the crease in his Savile Row pearl-striped trousers. "American Negroes should keep out of international affairs! I saw Ethiopian soldiers tortured and mutilated because they had stolen a bit of grain or refused to fight. It was not only brutality by the Ethiopians toward Italian prisoners, but toward men, women and children of their own race. I saw children who had stolen a little bread, with hands chained to their feet. I have not written a book, I have written an epistle...
Roosevelt Has a Chance "Roosevelt still has a good chance of being reelected in 1936," according to Mr. Thomas. "Much of the anti-Roosevelt talk in the East should be taken with a grain of salt and the Literary Digest straw vote cannot be construed as a true indication. Anybody with a grievance against the New Deal voted against it, but that does not mean they would vote for a Republican in the election...
...himself down recently to chits of one sheet. Last week H. R. H. weeded out of his peacocky wardrobe all suits and haberdashery from Sanctionist countries, ordered new royal gear 100% Italian. Next the vast gardens of his palace at Turin were plowed up at his orders, sown with grain "as an example to all householders...
With their British political careers ripening as uneventfully as grain, Sir Bolton and Secretary for Air Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister had Viscountcies conferred upon them by George V last week. By accepting them they signified that neither has any ambition to become Prime Minister, considered impossible today for a member of the House of Lords...
TIME'S comparison (Oct. 21, p. 56) of a ripe human ovum with a pinhead gives an inadequate concept of the true size of this interesting cell. Actually its diameter is but 1/200 in. This is about the size of the smallest grain of sand that could be seen with the unaided eye. Stated differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held...