Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Grade A news events. An extreme example of this art was provided by Secretary Early one day when the President himself did nothing of interest at Galapagos. The official news report from the Houston announced that landing parties tried to pump the settlers about Baroness Eloise Wehrborn, the queer German woman who. wearing silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver, sought to "rule" the island several years ago until she and her retinue of young males came to mysterious ends. The settlers would not talk, and the whereabouts of the Baroness have been unknown for four years...
...suffered a wheat shortage. Bakers, unable to purchase sufficient wheat flour, eked out their dough with substitutes like corn flour, bean flour, ground lentils or ground ceci, yellow, bean-like pellets. The Government legalized this adulteration up to 20% but bakers took advantage of the practice, began turning out queer tasting, colored loaves only 50% wheat flour. Public grumbling grew, scores were clapped into prison for their protests and finally Il Duce stepped in, called his Cereals Corporation into conference...
...existence of "heavy electrons," also known as X-particles or barytrons, was suspected by Anderson and his co-workers in 1934, and later discovered almost simultaneously by him and Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Stevenson of Harvard. These queer little particles appear to originate about ten miles above the earth's surface as a result of collisions between primary cosmic ray particles and air atoms. Calculations of their mass have yielded figures from 110 to 400 times the weight of an ordinary electron...
...There was nothing political in what I said, nor were any political implications intended," Mr. Williams wrote to the Committee last week. To newsmen he explained he had thought he was talking off-the-record. He added: "I think I would be a very queer duck if I did not do this sort of thing...
...unsteadily in the new land of the U. S. S. R. At the town of Yalta, in the Crimea, the Soviet Government has installed a seismograph station with sensitive instruments capable of recording the slightest tremors of the earth. Recently, the savants in charge have been nonplussed by a queer epidemic of quakes. One which agitated the instruments appeared to be in Angora, another in Asia, a third on the Adriatic coast. An extremely violent series of jiggles made the seismologists believe that a quake was occurring right there in Yalta. Oddly enough, however, no other station was obtaining records...