Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final concert ill be held at Symphony Hall on Friday night at 9 o'clock...
...Workers. Relegated to a back seat when John L. Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization took over his decrepit little craft union and set out to make it a great industrial union of all the nation's steelworkers (TIME, June 15 et seq.), reactionary old Mike Tighe offered ill health as reason for his resignation, actually got out before the union's new blood voted...
Albert Einstein's wife was ill, so he sent word that he could not attend. He was to have read a paper "On Some Approximate and Rigorous Solutions of the Field Equations." Another Nobel Prizewinner who was expected to attend but did not was cocky young Werner Heisenberg of Germany, author of the famed "Uncertainty Principle" which has severely shaken the rule of Cause & Effect in physical science. Just as he was getting ready to leave Leipzig, at whose university he has been a professor for nine of his 35 years, the Uncertainty Principle's author was ordered...
...dairymen made least happy by the State scale and the summer's drought were a pair of brothers named Stanley and Felix Piseck. Born in Peru, Ill. of Polish parents, they, still own a farm there, have lived for the past 16 years near Poland, N. Y. where they operate four farms. They led New York's milk strike of 1933 which failed to enlist solid support. This year their agitation for better milk prices has found much more sympathy. They claim 45,000 of the State's 1,000,000 dairy farmers as members of their...
...CLOAK OF MONKEY FUR - Julian Duguid-Apple ton-Century ($2.50). Costume piece by the author of Green Hell; a brisk, fast-moving but conventional novel dealing with an ill-fated expedition from Spain to South America...