Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from the stubborn Dutchmen, the highest hurdle in restriction's path was native production. The nut-brown native taps when he pleases, and tales of tall plans are just so much English or Dutch to him. The conference mounted this hurdle by restricting not actual production but exports. The 1934 limit is set at 1,019,000 tons but under the guidance of an international committee the limit will rise about 25% by 1938. First year quotas (in tons): Malaya-504,000; Dutch East Indies-352,000; Ceylon-77,000; Sarawak-24,000; Siam-15,000; North Borneo...
...anchored the horrific hippogriff close to the path which Col. Mann's boat would have to take. . . . [When the boat passed near by] I released the monster. It came up nobly. . . . Mr. Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what...
...energy amounts to some 1,000,000,000 kilowatt-hours in a year, should some day be harnessed by man. Anatomy of a lightning flash: a "leader" stroke shoots from a negatively charged cloud-bottom to positively charged Earth; the main stroke traces the leader's path in the opposite direction. New photographs with a special speed camera show the leader stroke varying in length from 1.6 to 4.7 miles, in speed from 810 to 19,000 miles per second.-Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, University of Capetown...
...loss which Harvard suffers by the retirement of LeBaron Russell Briggs can be estimated only by his extraordinary record of service and achievement. His has been a personal guidance; he has given his students vision, and he has sent them out on the path of life inspired by a tradition which they could not quite define, but which has been to them a very real and living force...
...Galmot and "Handsome Alex" Stavisky fell madly in love with the beautiful Arlette Simon who married Stavisky. Conspirator Galmot tattled on Conspirator Stavisky. In 1928 Jean Galmot was mysteriously poisoned. A partly burned letter from Stavisky contained the sentence: "Galmot will find out what it costs to cross my path." On his deathbed Jean Galmot gasped: "The dirty dogs, they've killed me!'' ¶ No less interesting than the murders was the problem of what had become of the great cache of jewels that Stavisky succeeded in spiriting...