Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Martin's low state coincided with the presence in Detroit of C. I. O. Vice Chairmen Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman. With them at the Hotel Statler was swart young Lee Pressman, C. I. O. general counsel, who is so thoroughly allergic to Homer Martin that the two were kept apart. Boss John L. Lewis had sent the visitors to save C.I.O.'s third largest union from dismemberment at the hands of Mr. Martin and feuding fellow officers (TIME, June 20). Mr. Lewis was aboard ship, coasting home from a union conference in Mexico City...
...combination of special low rates for this type of service with speedy delivery both at the college and at the student's home has made this service a very popular one with college men and women...
...Union in Stockholm, Sweden, from August 3 to 10, papers were delivered by three men from Harvard. Dr. Shapley spoke on "The Distribution of Galaxies and the Absorption of Light in space." He confirmed previous indications that our own discshaped galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by an immense, low-density globe of scattered stars...
...study of chlorophyll and photosynthesis) at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio. Last week at the Milwaukee convention of the American Chemical Society, brilliant young Dr. Rothemund reported that he had finally "activated" chlorophyll in his laboratory. When chlorophyll is heated in certain organic solvents it exhibits chemiluminescence (radiation at low temperatures): gives off "a beautiful red glow." The magnesium or zinc salts of porphyrins also exhibit chemiluminescence when heated in the same manner. Thus chlorophyll not only absorbs light but somehow transforms it and gives it forth again. At present Dr. Rothemund is trying to "correlate the amount of energy...
...that other indicators offered last week. The war scare depressed stock prices but not severely, and volume of selling was light. Demand deposits in Federal Reserve Member banks were near the peak set at the end of 1936 but the turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year ago as compared to 14% fortnight...