Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stiff necked one, and thus privy to the disadvantages of negotiating a loser's peace. And even if his post war love of peace was the facile reaction of a spanked child, a whole Hindenburg would still know how to count armies, and that small armies cannot throw mud at big armies without a disastrous fight. But this much at least can be said: IIorr von Hindenburg has disintegrated sadly, or he is an immortal villian, insincere and stupid to boot. Until his brain is weighed and his letters published, the dilemma must remain...
...professional biochemist, because "factors still unknown contribute to normal nutrition." Garbaged Farm Lands. To provide more arable land for England, Francis Maurice Gustavus Du-Plat-Taylor, dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly. Tooth Crystals. X-ray analysis showed J. Thewlis a close analogy between the structure of tooth enamel and the fertilizing mineral apatite. He hopes that further study...
...spade shot that stopped three inches from the cup at the 12th put Miss Van Wie three up. On the 15th, both balls were on the green in two, but Helen Hicks's had bitten into the soft turf and picked up a patch of mud. She putted three times to Virginia Van Wie's two and shook hands, grinning, with the champion...
...Eastern duck hunters, Assistant Biologist Clarence Cottam of the U. S. Biological Survey this week had good news. On the coast and islands of North Carolina he had found eel grass coming back. A flowering saltwater plant, it normally mats the Atlantic coast's shallow-mud flats from Florida to Greenland. In 1931 it began to disappear. Simultaneously many a brant, Canada goose and black duck began to shrivel and die. Eel grass is the staple winter food of brant, important to other waterfowl...
...national figure secret for hours or even days, the idea being that his successor can be quietly appointed by the Sublime Emperor in the interval, without too much influential squabbling or eruptions of popular unrest. One day last week studious Emperor Hirohito and shy Empress Nagako dispatched to mud-walled Changchun, the sleazy capital of their puppet state Manchukuo, a great ceremonial basket of fruit, traditional Japanese gift to the dying...