Word: inert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Tribune, under Editor Captain Joe Patterson. Howey wanted him for the Herald & Examiner. When Carson refused to come over Howey plotted with a mutual actor friend to put knockout drops in Carson's drink at a Loop bar. Then he took the doped editor home, guided his inert hand through a Tribune resignation and a Herald & Examiner contract. Carson honored the contract...
...narrow well 50 ft. deep, lined it with double steel tubing, stoppered it at the bottom with concrete and sand. The capsule, a cartridge seven and a half feet long, was made of a Westinghouse nickel and silver alloy copper, lined with Pyrex glass, emptied of air, filled with inert nitrogen. Among the objects which went into it were a woman's hat, razor, can opener, fountain pen, pencil, tobacco pouch with zipper, pipe, tobacco, cigarets, camera, eyeglasses, toothbrush; cosmetics, textiles, metals and alloys, coal, building materials, synthetic plastics, seeds; dictionaries, language texts, magazines (TIME among them), other written...
...elimination of Nationalism. It is "already . . . the 'other religion' of most of the human race; and when the Christian churches become just a little more inert than they now are in any particular country, nationalism then will become the sole religion of that country...
...Francis Friday Griffiths, chief of scientific investigations for the Oregon State Game Commission, last week announced success of a twilight sleep technique for steelheads. The fish are taken from the traps, dunked in a solution of two parts of ether to 100 parts of water. Inert after a minute or two, they are easily stripped with practically no loss of eggs or milt. Then they are returned to their normal water, are soon as sprightly as ever. Hatchery superintendents believe that ether anesthesia will enable them to work with smaller crews next spring...
Business experience popped fitfully in & out of this political career: at 23 he was secretary of the Railway Committee of Central South African Railways; at 53 he was briefly Governor of the National Bank of Scotland. An improvising administrator, he works by fits & starts, grows inert and sluggish unless...