Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calm evening in Washington last week a tiny mirror twitched in a tiny spasm. So at the moment did similar mirrors in London, Bombay, Frankfurt am Main, Ottawa, Pasadena, Victoria, New York City. Each twitching mirror reflected a beam of light on a revolving drum covered with photosensitive paper. When seismologists saw these jagged tracks they knew that a mighty earthquake was somewhere in progress...
...main trouble I see," said Representative Paul A. Dever of Cambridge, "is with girls. No one can tell how old they are nowadays. The tavern will not be harmful," continued Mr. Dever, "it will be an aid to temperance, and will keep the students away from the bad influence of speakeasies...
...which removes any lint from bathing suits or any similar material which has remained in the water. After this, it is heated to between 72 and 75 degrees. It then runs through two coagulant pots, one of soda ash and the other of alum, which prevent undue acidity. The main work of filtration is done by 27 tons of special graded Cape May, New Jersey, fine sand, through which the water seeps. Before entering the pool again, the water is impregnated with chlorine gas, which lends a greenish color and which disinfects the water while it is in the pool...
...National Recovery Administration is a failure in its main purpose, that of increasing consumer purchasing power," said Bruce Bliven, President of the board of editors of the New Republic at a joint meeting of the Harvard Inquiry and the Politics Club, presided over by Arthur N. Bolcombe '06, last night in Lowell House Common Room. "As a matter of fact," continued Mr. Bliven, "there has been a decrease in purchasing power, rather than the expected increase, although there has been in aggregate purchasing power...
...summarize a program of action that Mr. Roosevelt has been asked to follow is not difficult. Here are some of the main items...