Word: noting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Take a piece of toast hot from the toaster tomorrow morning and lay it on a cold plate. When you pick it up you will note the plate is beaded with drops of moisture. And it won't be saliva. . . . The air the musician takes into his lungs is not saturated with saliva when he blows it into his horn, it is warmed in the lungs so that its natural moisture is more easily condensed when it passes into the cooler metal coils of the horn, and this natural moisture of the air (water) is what is precipitated within...
...efforts to point out reasons for our usage would be puny compared to Will McGuire's excellent "A Note on Jook," so I will simply enclose a copy of his work for your information. This is taken from the spring 1938 edition of The Florida Review, published at the University of Florida...
...Broun, polite as always, though he dictated from his bed in a Manhattan hotel, where he lay ill with grippe: "There were fights, frenzies, some praise and a lot of dough, and a good deal of fun in my relationship with Roy." Said Roy Howard, also polite, in a note appended to Broun's column: "Heywood was occasionally a bit of a headache. But like many another headache, he was worth the price...
...reason for this is that in September 1935 Standard failed to finance repayment of a $24,650,000 note issue, landed in a reorganization proceeding in a Delaware Federal District Court. Charges (among others) by Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal with Standard netted Byllesby $5,000,000 on a $500 investment; an operating company purchase by Byllesby for $845,000 was sold four days later to Standard for $1.365,000, caused the court to appoint special counsel to investigate the Byllesby management. Result: a recommendation for a $100,000,000 stockholders...
...source material from which the synthetic hormones have been prepared is derived from the lowly sarsaparilla root found in Mexico. It is called sarsasa-pogenin. (CAUTION: Please note that the source material is derived from the lowly sarsaparilla root. . . . The hormones themselves...