Word: ionic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rear of the waiting room between four sturdy Ionic columns President Roosevelt found his second line of defense, smiling Pat McKenna who has worked about the White House for 31 years. His job is to switch visitors to their proper destinations: some out of the White House altogether to the departments, others to see burly Assistant Secretary Stephen T. Early who handles the Press; still others to the reception room for delegations of little wigs calling on the President; and a chosen few, who are destined to see the President personally and privately, into the office of Assistant Secretary Marvin...
Where the meters show a level plain or plateau of hidden rocks the air will be lightly and uniformly ionized over large areas and there will be practically no cloud-to-earth lightning flashes. But where the underground profile is jagged with peaks and valleys, the irregular ionic counterparts in the air induce lightning to crash down the ionic ladders...
Ornate but dusty chandeliers. Blue walls between stained white Ionic columns. A plaster frieze of dancing nymphs like a Wedgwood plaque. That is October Hall in the House of the Labor Unions in Moscow, and before the Revolution the gay dining room of the Nobles' Club. The world's eyes were on October Hall last week when six British engineers-together with twelve Russian defendants, in which neither Soviet nor world Press took much interest-went on trial for their lives charged with espionage and sabotage (TIME, March 27 et seq.). If these men were found innocent millions...
...those who are really interested in science, be it Physics, Biology, Physiology, or Chemistry, this course in introductory physical chemistry is in invaluable. It covers the nature of matter, the nature of solutions, the nature of reactions, and ionic equilibria and in such a way as to give a basis for the interpretation of chemical facts and principles not only from the viewpoint of matter on masse, but especially in terms of the individual atoms and molecules...