Word: remained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acetycholine, which lies hidden in the large arteries, the large and small intestines and the placenta, behaves like histamine, but is chemically different. Despite intense research the origins of both remain obscure...
...Wilmington, Del., Melvin Train, garage hand, induced friends in 1921 to invest money in a business enterprise of his brother-in-law, lost their money when his brother-in-law absconded, vowed to remain silent until all losses were made good. Last week he paid off the last creditor, spoke for the first time in eleven years...
...later Mayor Curley leaped out of bed, sped to Washington and with a rhetorical flourish that sounded almost sarcastic told the President he was "eternally grateful" for the offer of the Warsaw post but he would have to decline it. His reason: "The clear call of duty . . . that I remain in America [and Boston] . . . cannot be disregarded...
...messy and hard to remove. The new method utilizes a pad impregnated with a colorless, nonpoisonous chemical compound and a special paper sensitive to that compound. When the subject presses his digits upon the pad, then upon the paper, his prints immediately appear with photographic clarity, his fingers remain clean, less suggestive of wrongdoing...
...Depression has brought the cost of finished dresses so low that little home dressmaking is done. Big scissor years were 1928 and 1929. People who then would pay $1 or $1.25 for scissors now want them for 49? retail. Big dressmaking companies use cutting machines, not scissors. Manicuring scissors remain in steady demand, but buttonhole scissors are becoming obsolete and cheap German iron (not steel) scissors imported for sale at 29? harmed the U. S. scissor business. Scissors in 5? & 10? stores have done less damage to the trade since they are made of cast iron, not forged steel, cannot...