Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides the pictures the show contains an elaborate reliquary. In it are original letters, books from Gauguin's lean library, tattered scrapbooks dedicated to his daughter Aline and a facsimile of the manuscript of his autobiography, Noa Noa, decorated with 40 pages of water colors and wood engravings in his own hand...
...last week no one announced wide-scale television for next week, next month or next year. In Manhattan, however, lean young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, one of the two top U. S. televisors, announced to the Institute of Radio Engineers a new cold-cathode amplifier which he believed would be immensely useful to radio in general, to television in particular. Mr. Farnsworth, who despite his flair for electronics has learned to talk like a tycoon, calls his new tube the multipactor. Ordinary thermionic tubes generate electrons by boiling them from a hot filament. The multipactor takes advantage of the fact that...
...candidate for office, and hence less philosophic than Governor Curley (see above), is Michigan's onetime (1932-35) Governor William Alfred Comstock, a Democratic wheelhorse who went bankrupt last year, but whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis...
...HOWLING school lad and burly truck drives alike there exists a common fear, that of the dentist drill rasping through dentine in seeming horrible search for the nerve. No lean scholar is Dr. LeRoy L. Hartman of Columbia's dental school, yet from his laboratory he has come forth with a discovery that entailed twenty years of research. As a consequence, the dental bogey man, pain, is now gone, and dentists everywhere are polishing tools for emergence out of the depression. Dr. Hartman has developed a chemical which, applied to the tooth, almost instantly kills its entire capacity for feeling...
Meantime, Mrs. Liggett positively identified a liquor dealer named Isadore Blumenfield ("Kid Cann") as the man who killed her husband. As she sat in the family car, said Mrs. Liggett, she had seen Kid Cann lean out of a passing automobile and fire the fatal shots. At Kid Cann's trial, which began late in January, a second witness also identified him as the killer. This witness, who was in the alley behind the Liggett apartment, said he recognized Kid Cann because they had served time together in the local workhouse...