Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absence of any sharp new angle, any strong new drive in Mr. Roosevelt's messages reflected the fact that he and his Cabinet (only Messrs. Hull. Murphy, Woodring, Edison and Ickes were at hand) had been caught off-base with the rest of the world by the Hitler-Stalin deal, the sudden push for Poland. When President Moscicki replied to Mr. Roosevelt that Poland was willing to negotiate, Mr. Roosevelt forwarded that word to Herr Hitler, but without much hope of getting action. Berlin's unofficial comment was that Mr. Roosevelt's words had, as usual, arrived...
Germany has 12,580,000 radio sets licensed at $9.87 a year. In the last year almost 3,000,000 new radios were sold, but fewer than 1,000,000 were the Reich-backed People's Radios, geared to local reception. Of the rest, despite Nazi frowning on broadcasts from abroad, 1,500,000 were all-wave sets designed to receive foreign short-wave broadcasting, bringing the number of all-wave receivers in Germany...
...radio. Russia's 75 stations (mightiest, 500-kilowatt Radio Moscow) speak 62 languages in reaching the 170,000,000 inhabitants. Listening is largely in groups, in workers' clubs, factories, etc., over receivers which tune in the Government programs, nothing else. Russia is too far away from the rest of the crowded radio world to worry much about interference...
...completely lost." Fishman Noble also noted that the sex glands of partially de-brained fish degenerate and they lose interest in breeding. When pituitary hormones are injected the fish swim out in search of mates again, although they no longer hatch eggs in the same seasons as the rest of their friends...
...Europe, the United Press 500, International News Service 125. Among them they cabled nearly 1,000,000 words in a week. Telegraph and telephone lines were so jammed that at times messages were ten hours late. For six hours on Friday Germany was entirely cut off from the rest of the world, and at one time the U. P.'s Paris bureau had to telephone London by way of New York. Five newspapers had their own staffs abroad: the New York Times and Herald Tribune, the Chicago Tribune and News, the Christian Science Monitor. With the press services, they...