Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Martin as a candidate for Minority Leader of the House. Because, said he, "I feel that the course to be followed by the Republican minority . . . during the next two years is of vital importance." Western Congressmen think neither he nor Joe Martin deserves the Leadership, since the main Republican gains of the last election were made in other States (Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas, Michigan). Their candidate: Carl Mapes of Michigan...
...persons (i. e., about 7% of all persons in France), French workers ran true to form last week. Their French leaders objected furiously to the recent series of decree laws introduced by Premier Daladier (with parliamentary authority previously voted and to be confirmed or withdrawn by Parliament) mainly for one reason: they claimed, justly in the main, that on their face these laws impose sacrifices which bear more heavily upon Labor than upon Capital. The businessman's side of the argument is, of course, that these laws are intended to redress some of the undue wealth-destroying laws which...
...food for the five houses connected by the main tunnel system is prepared in an elaborate kitchen, situated under Kirkland and Eliot Houses, with separate units used for the various phases of the Harvard cuisine. The moats and vegetables are prepared in separate kitchens and a complete bakery supplies the entire university with bread and desserts...
...Main reason why Dr. Lawrence is so loath to part with his cyclotron is that he is now engaged in the most significant problem of his career: the effect of neutron rays on cancer of human beings. The cyclotron whirls ions of heavy hydrogen (deuterons) between the poles of a huge electromagnet, then hurls them into a drumlike vacuum chamber. When they are charged with nearly eight million volts of energy, the ions are shot against a target of light metal, usually beryllium. The bullets knock out streams of neutrons, tiny particles about the same weight as protons but carrying...
...skyscraper Opera House. Choreography by Philadelphia's Catherine Littlefield, capers by Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen alike. A good-natured, showy satire on night-club life, its scene recalled Manhattan's El Morocco; its main characters were thickly disguised as Heavyweight Max Baer, "Chain-store Nymph" Barbara Hutton, Columnist Lucius Beebe...