Word: ratione
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chemistry come in. . . . "I have been experimenting with milk now for about eight years. For the last three years I have taken hardly anything else.* I came in with milk [he chuckled] and I guess I'll go out with it. It's the only balanced ration-balanced by the Great Chemist, who is far away." [He raised his stubby pencil over his head, toward the ceiling.] Will science tell us to eat less, as it has told us to drink less? "Eighty percent of our deaths are due to overeating. After the age of 21 a large...
...would still feel fine." Will more research in health-biology and chemistry-mean less in electricity- and mechanics? "No, it brings new fields to work in." Whereupon, after a few more questions & answers on stray subjects, Dr. Edison tucked a napkin in his collar and quietly swigged his ration of milk from a thermos bottle...
...Moscow grim smiles last week greeted U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde's naïve idea (TIME, Sept. 29) that Dictator Stalin "cannot" throw actual grain into the World market to cover his short sales because right now "the Russians find it necessary to ration their own people and to shoot men for forging food cards!" This is exactly what Moscow's "Man of Steel" can do, is doing, will continue to do up to a purposeful point. When the Russian stomach begins to feel the pinch it is and will be convenient to execute...
...words shot about the conference room of the Fédération Aéronautique International last week. Delegates from France and Italy glared across the meeting table at delegates from Great Britain. For a time it appeared that one nation or more might bolt the Federation. Reason: Great Britain had arbitrarily upped the entry fee per plane for the 1931 Schneider trophy races for seaplanes from 5,000 francs to 200,000 francs ($8,000). France and Italy challenged Britain's right to boost the rate, declared only the Federation had such power, refused to pay. Thereupon...
...last week an army airplane piloted by Captain Ira C. Eaker carried Hanford MacNider, Iowa banker, onetime (1925-28) Assistant Secretary of War, from Washington to Ottawa, where he presented his credentials as U. S. Minister to tall, slender, white-whiskered Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Viscount Willingdon, Baron of Ration, Governor-General of Canada. Before he left Washington, Minister MacNider had been thoroughly coached by President Hoover on the major problems at issue between the U. S. and Canada...