Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near Avignon in Provence 49 years ago, son of a baker. Though Edouard Daladier was no Separatist, a friend of his boyhood was the late great Poet Frederic Mistral, reviver of the Provencal language. Desiring to be a schoolteacher, Edouard Daladier entered a normal school and studied under a plump vomit: man whose career was to parallel his from then on: Edouard Herriot...
...more men. He had carte blanche to do what he liked. The Government issued no reports but Cubans needed none to know how Ortiz would operate. Than he, no man in Cuba is more famed for murder. Half Negro, he is a big, bull-shouldered man with a plump, cheerful face, small, shadowed eyes. As military supervisor in Oriente Province in 1930, he was accused of 44 political assassinations which he called "suicides." He enjoys performing executions personally and "Ortiz' Mark" means a bullet at the base of a corpse's brain. Civil courts indicted...
Into the mouth of the Columbia River last week swarmed hundreds of thousands of plump fish. The salmon were running, fighting rapids, flashing over falls, bucking fishways around dams, bound more than 500 mi. inland to spawn and die. And last week for the first time in years no man hindered them. Boats cruised slowly on the river to see that no nets were laid. The Columbia River fisherfolk were on strike...
...gong. The fog-eye can detect differences of temperature of one-fifty-thousandth of a degree Centigrade. Its theoretical effec- tiveness is the heat of a candle eight miles away. The amplifier reacts to direct electrical currents as small as one-five-billionths of an ampere or, said plump Dr. Free at the fog-eye demonstration, "about what is produced in your own pocket by carrying copper and silver money to gether." Commander Macneil, no exaggerator, believes that his fog-eye "is unquestionably the greatest single invention for safety of life at sea ever yet achieved, with the arguable exception...
Rear Admiral William Woodward Phelps, his gold braid dulled, stood at attention. So did plump Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother, and Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's predecessor. High above them rose the knifelike prow of a 10,000-ton cruiser, her anchor ports swathed in damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser...