Word: plumped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plump, well-fed gentleman in steel-rimmed spectacles set out from Iowa last autumn to sell blood & death to the U. S. Press. With his brief case full of fire, smoke, steel, mud, gore, torn limbs and burnt flesh he visited nearly every State in the Union, leaving behind a trail of agony and chaos. Last week he rode into Louisville, and before he rode out again he had left his mark on the Courier-Journal-50th newspaper to buy his photographs of the World War. Sweeping on through Washington, Wheeling, Erie, New Haven, he paused in Manhattan to contemplate...
...colleagues favor] the name diplogen (Greek diploos, double) for heavy hydrogen, and diplon for the nucleus." Last fortnight in the British scientific journal Nature was printed a letter entitled "Chemical Separation of Diplogen from Hydrogen." Showing throughout no sign of recognizing any other nomenclature, it presaged a general British plump for the Rutherford suggestions. Meanwhile Professor Urey and the two men who helped him discover heavy hydrogen had dispatched to Nature a letter with barbs under the bland velvet of its phrasing. The three discoverers stated that they had long ago considered and discarded the name diplogen. Reason: "The compound...
...Company has been its failure to engage Baritone John Charles Thomas, to reintroduce Tenor Paul Althouse. Last week Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza endeavored to make up for lost time. Baritone Thomas was ordered to get himself into tail coat and top hat and enact the worried parent in Traviata. Plump Tenor Althouse, who sang at the Met twelve years ago, was told to slip on a bearskin for Siegmund in Die Walkure...
Proteges and companies will share profits 50-50 with their guardian. Municipal Yardstick, wholly subsidized by him, will be run by the woman who helped teach Mr. Devlet how to trade in bonds- shrewd, plump Mrs. Irma Eggleston, one-time manager of trading at C. F. Childs & Co. Most notable protege is Richard George Brennan, owner of his own bond house before Depression, whom Guardian Devlet rescued last year from a career as longshoreman and salesman of lumber jackets...
...medal bore his own plump-cheeked, spectacled features in relief. Present, too, were the four asterisks which Dr. Matas inserts at the end of every topic in his medical writings to indicate that the topical "cow has been milked dry." Donor of the Matas Medal is Mike Sam Hart, big-boned, generous New Orleans Jew whose family grew rich in New Orleans public utilities. Mike Hart's late sister, Violet Ida Hart, singer, was long a Matas patient. Her dying wish: "We must do something big for Dr. Matas, something that really will show our appreciation...