Word: intact
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet General "Galen," later known as Marshal Vassily Bluecher and recently purged by Stalin. Hong Kong dispatches this week reported Chiang & Advisers about to attempt a Chinese drive to recapture Canton, based on rallying and reorganizing the large Cantonese forces which gave up the city without a fight, withdrew intact...
...chemist was astonished. He had put his finger on a whitish deposit covering the inside of a glass vessel not much bigger than a thimble. He expected this substance to crumble at his touch. Instead, it came out intact, like a smooth, tough vellum paper. It stood on his desk, forming a model of the vessel which it had lined...
...eardrums have been anticipating nervously ever since the establishment of the story's time and place -finally begins to rattle, it is almost an anticlimax. Unlike the same phenomenon in San Francisco, it inflicts no more than a few severe bruises on the cast, leaving most of them intact for their grand reunion later. Success or failure of such a picture as The Sisters depends largely on how well it evokes the mood of an era which lies within memory's horizon for many people who will see it. In this respect, Milton Krims's screen play...
Bert Haines is optimistic about the prospects of the Varsity and Freshman 150-lb crews. Along with the 1938 lightweight Henley eight which returns this year almost intact there is a powerful Freshman aggregation, promising to give the Varsity a good battle...
...Clay," says Professor Chiera, "is practically indestructible." This is especially true if the clay has been baked, as some of the cuneiform writings were. Unbaked clay crumbles if left to weather on the surface, but if buried in moist ground it remains intact indefinitely. If it is dirty, it can be brushed vigorously without hurting the writing. In the mounds which were piled up by the debris of Babylonian cities built one on top of another the author estimates that 99% of history's cuneiform writings still await discovery. The Babylonians and Assyrians wrote a great deal-records...