Word: iotas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign against us in the press, encouraged and abetted by your 'warning,' has reached new heights of unprincipled slander. You know perfectly well that the charges that we intended to 'coerce,' 'mace' or 'shake down' the WPA workers are without an iota of justification in fact...
...Jewry (the inconsiderable remainder, Reform Jews, divorce as they please). Last week at its 32nd annual convention in Atlantic City the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U. S. and Canada said its final say on the matter. The Union voted overwhelmingly "not to recede one iota" from the Orthodox position on the status of the lorn agunah...
...machine used to trap this elusive iota is known as a cloud chamber. Nothing new, this apparatus has been in use since 1910; it consists of a chamber containing a mixture of liquid and gas and several lead plates, through which the cosmic radiations pass--the gas is cooled, and produces a fog track along the path of ions formed by the charged corpuscles. This track of condensed vapor can be easily seen with the naked eye and also photographed, showing up as a bright streak on the film. Thus electrons, protons and the new particles, although far too infinitesimal...
...used for the monument Pope has developed, which will be beautiful a thousand years hence. "Modern" will not do for such an enduring building as the style is still in its swaddling clothes. We hate to see the cherry trees moved, but their existence can only be an iota of time compared with the monument's existence...
...dais with the new chairman at a post-convention banquet for him in Manhattan. Last week newshawks asked John Hamilton about the rumors. Obviously primed with his points, if not with his metaphors, the jut-jawed Republican Chairman barked: "There is not an iota of truth in such a thing, and it is a deliberate attempt by those other people to throw a dust cloud when they know their ship is sinking. We have a red herring in every campaign, and apparently this is the first such attempt. The opposition is using this unholy issue to catch votes...