Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mop-up work it does a grand job. For in-fighting in riots its shot cartridges are murderous-at 25 yards they hurl birdshot into a circular pattern six feet in diameter...
...Potential maximum of all practicable waterpower sites has been estimated around 325 billion kwh. Though completion of the New Deal's dam program will not harness all this, experts foresee a big surplus over municipal and irrigation power needs. They also claim they know how to mop it up-build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires 225,000 amperes-enough current to light a million...
...worthy university, a guaranteed victorious Olympic team for Manchukuo. The big bee in Orestes' bonnet was war, which, he was convinced, "like any other business, could be vastly improved by those planning to engage in it." His first big order was for 500,000 men to mop up a threatened Communist outbreak in the Netherlands East Indies. Unfortunately for Orestes, the job was too easy. His supercharged G. M. units, just nicely warmed up by the exercise, ached for a real workout, and when the fatal suggestion was made, "Let's take San Francisco...
Four years ago aging Pedagogue Hubay was delighted by the playing of a 13-year-old, mop-headed youngster fresh from the Budapest Conservatory, and decided to take him as a pupil. The youngster, a Yugoslav of Hungarian parentage, named Robert Virovai, soon had all Budapest talking. Last year, just before he died, crotchety 78-year-old Hubay, who in his time had heard his share of fiddling, shook his head feelingly and said, "Young Virovai plays so beautifully as to astonish even...
...what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from that part of the public which likes to identify the artist with the screwball. What psychiatrists think about that was put simply by Bellevue's animated, mop-haired Dr. Paul Schilder: "A pathological person is forced down under the surface of everyday reality and can't get back. A normal artist can dive down and come back up with the treasure...