Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biggest headaches anticipated by Mr. Andrews are fights between A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. for places on his committees. These he proposes to settle by giving them representation in proportion to the number of workers which each has unionized in a given industry...
...chairmaned by Rugby School's headmaster P. H. B. Lyon. It urged school children and adults to become members at a shilling a year, promised that each sixpence would buy a square foot of playground. The club has already signed up 20,000 members. As it reduces the number of playgroundless children, the club will change its name to the Four Million Club, the Three Million Club, etc. It hopes eventually to disappear...
...maintains its position as the industry's supreme spendthrift. The picture presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning corners...
...University of California discovered that lack of a certain principle of wheat germ, tomato and lettuce oils made laboratory rats sterile. In 1935 he isolated Vitamin E, the active principle of these oils, reduced it to its pure, crystalline form. Vitamin E regulates cell division, increases the number and strength of the offspring, promotes growth. Lack of this vitamin results in malnutrition of the embryo and abortion in the female, destruction of germ cells in the male, muscular paralysis in the young. Isolation of Vitamin E (alpha tocopherol) from natural oils is difficult and expensive, but last winter Chemist Paul...
Literary observers, about equally divided between the alarmed and the content, now acknowledge that the left-wing literary movement during the 30s has gained some able recruits. But even sympathetic observers have been disturbed by the number of left-wing novels which appear, still lumpy with undigested slogans, melodrama, still relying on red flags and broken heads instead of good writing...