Word: nut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the able Chinese took his able wife and collaborator, Dr. Amy S. H. Ling Chen, to Brooklyn to announce the discovery of thevetin, a new heart stimulant which the Chens isolated from the poisonous bestill nut of Hawaii...
Andy Bahr is a tough, squat, nut-brown little Laplander who is reputed to know more about reindeer than any man in the world. He was past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless...
Harvard's Varsity soccer team will lose its entire scoring trio, the three forwards in the center of the line, when graduation comes next June. Only the problem of cracking that nut bothers the Crimson booters, who wiped away their tears over previously losing their chance at the Intercollegiate championship, when they wound up the season by defeating Yale 1-0 Friday. If the Tiger had been taken to town the Crimson would lead the league...
Four years ago TIME reported that Reader Ryan had sued various railroads and steel corporations, including U. S. Steel, for $500,000,000, charging infringement of patents on self-locking nut & bolt devices invented by her late husband. The suits are still pending, and Mrs. Ryan, now 64, is about to publish a book called A Stolen Invention. She explains that the suits are for $250,000,000, not $500,000,000; that she, not her husband, was the inventor. Mrs. Ryan also says she has invented puncture-proof tires and an air cushion to ease the landing of persons...
...place of their own accord. The motor's fan becomes a propeller as the imp flies the engine down into chassis. It was Mr. Ford's own idea to have the imp sucked out of the automobile body by "No-draft ventilation," to make him throw a nut at a window which does not shatter. With a flourish of trumpets, 4,999 changes into 5,000. As the grimacing imp changes back into an insignia the cinema closes with a happily synchronized major chord...