Word: nakedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The candidates did their best at the unaccustomed game of electioneering. In Moscow, one Ivan Gudov, candidate, electioneered by announcing that two days before the election he turned out on his lathe "4,852% more work than I am supposed to do in a day!" In Leningrad, the local head...
Slime molds are among the most primitive of living things. Six years ago one of them, a golden yellow mold long known to botanists as Physarum polycephalum, was successfully cultured indoors by Dr. Frank Leslie Howard of Rhode Island State College. Later he turned his molds and his methods over...
In 1935 Lord Cecil, as president of the British League of Nations Union, fostered a straw vote in which 11,000,000 Britons balloted pro-League. This should have presaged a Labor victory at the next British General Election, since the Labor Opposition has always been pro-League and the...
As far back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets...
As Japanese shelling and bombing increased, Chinese soldiers began stripping off their uniforms, some hurling their naked bodies against the French barbed wire to secure gashes and wounds, understood to be essential for admission to safety in the French Concession. Elsewhere on the Shanghai front Chinese retreated in good order...