Word: manners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accounts from members of all four of the division of the army, which followed closely upon each other. Some of the diaries are quite technical, dealing principally with the topography of the land traversed and the nature of river currents, while others are written in a freer and interesting manner...
Sirs: Has NO one discovered that the Republicans' new streamlined elephant has its knees bending the wrong way? An elephant's legs are bent in the same manner as you bend yours. The result, as shown in TIME [Aug. 15], gives the impression that the worthy animal is ready to go either way at a moment's notice...
...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 dissipated by this radiation to the amount of chlorophyll decomposed, and the energy required to start the process of chemiluminescence...
...scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall, and, in a split second, return it so that it will be in a difficult position for the opposing player (or players) to catch. Points are scored in the same manner as tennis or handball. Winning score varies from seven points (singles) to 25 points (doubles...
Last week in the September QST was published a letter from Archduke Anton, denying that he had ever been arrested, referring to the Anschluss only as "the great event." Wrote Archduke Anton: "The incorporation of the Austrian amateurs into the D. A. S. D. was accomplished in the friendliest manner and with great consideration towards us. I myself, as ex-president of the Oe. V. S. V., have been intrusted with the reorganization of the ex-Oe hams and have been named 'Landes Verbandsführer der Donaulande' that is to say: 'Leader of the association...