Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, April 27, under Science, you report the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society and, in your item Explosives from Corn, there is a gross misstatement which reflects greatly on the ability of the many chemists in the corn products industry. The statement at fault is: "300,000,000 quarts of the 'steep water' which the corn starch industry throws away every year...
...regions, one of Bowdoin College's outstanding, projects is the maintenance and operation of its Kent's Island (on the Bay of Funny) biological station. Manned almost entirely by undergraduates, work at this station centers upon research into the bird life on the island directed by W. A. O. Gross, Bowdoin junior. Important and interesting phases of this unusual type of undergraduate study and research are pictured here...
Railroad men prefer to write annual reports almost exclusively with figures. Though he may be baffled by such things as average gross tons per freight-locomotive mile or average cars per passenger-train mile, an inquisitive stockholder may learn how many hopper-bottom gondolas he owns or what percentage of main and branch lines are laid with 131-lb. rails. As conservative as the roads themselves, official statements are perennially drab in format. Last week Union Pacific broke its tradition of severe grey covers by dressing up its annual report for 1935 with a picture of a streamlined locomotive with...
Theme of Education Before Verdun is stated on p. 323: "In the middle of a war, when civilization had long since collapsed . . , mankind, tenacious and defiant in the face of gross injustice, fought desperately against outrages that would indeed have cried aloud to heaven in peace, but might now rank as trifling irregularities." As in so many contemporary German novels, Injustice is the theme. The story opens with a minor but significant example. Bertin, who in peacetime had been a well-known German novelist, is now simply a near-sighted private in the Army Service Corps, gets into serious...
...Regular Gross. Bright Eyes ended all doubts about Shirley Temple's future. It cost $190,000, earned that much in three weeks. Since Bright; Eyes she has appeared in The Little Colonel, Our Little Girl, Curly Top and The Littlest Rebel. Each Temple picture-the totals vary less than those of any other star-grosses between $1,000,000 and $1,500,000. They cost between $200,000 and $300,000. Story, cast and background are relatively unimportant. Temple pictures are rarely held up in production and often finished ahead of shooting schedule. She makes four a year...