Word: rig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pursuing his researches, Curator Coates enlisted the aid of New York University's Physicist Richard T. Cox, who helped him rig up testing apparatus which demonstrated that the eel's current courses along its body at the rate of 1,000 meters per second, approximately ten times the speed at which impulses travel along the nerves of man. Last January, Physicist Cox & party set sail for Brazil to delve further into the eel's mysteries. Last week's capture was the first news from them, but next fortnight they will start home with their findings. Christopher...
...took me in hand and for three years or so I loathed him. He had to break me in, and I knew nothing." He lived with his family, but often had the house to himself when they were away in the Hills; he had his own servant, his own rig, all that went with it. "Till I was in my 24th year, I no more dreamed of dressing myself than I did of shutting an inner door. . . . And-luxury of which I dream still-I was shaved before I was awake!" Even when he dined alone, he always dressed...
...take her husband's place. Then the German went to the trenches to be killed, and when Fannie bore his baby the village was willing to let her starve. Jean's brother Marc, a stalwart priest, got his atheist friend Gaure, a chemistry professor, to help him rig up a homemade wireless, to get news of the outside world. Before they knew it, both were involved in a far-flung spy system. Gaure was caught, tortured, shot. Later on Marc was arrested too, but only for running an illicit printing press. He and one of his partners, Hennedyck...
...reports by telephone got better and better. Like an oil drill going down, the column of Landon delegates continued steadily up. To the 388 lined up by Monday were added most of New York's 90. Then 50 of Pennsylvania's 75. That clinched it-unless the rig should go haywire before the actual balloting. Alf Landon permitted himself to josh Harry Woodring, his Democratic predecessor as Governor, now Assistant Secretary of War, who had bet against Landon's luck. "Well, Harry," he said, "I'll invite you to dinner at the White House to compensate...
...spectacularly reversed overnight when swashbuckling Democratic Promoters Luke Lea & Rogers Clark ("Bank on the South") Caldwell bought the paper in 1928. With the collapse of Caldwell's Southern banking and publishing empire (TIME, Nov. 24, 1930), the Journal regained its Republican editorial policy, limped along under the jury-rig of a receivership, with able General Manager Robert H. Clagett keeping a tight grip on the helm. Last week when Roy N. Lotspeich, socialite president of Knoxville's big Appalachian Mills Co., came forward with $450,000, for which New Orleans' Canal Bank & Trust Co. turned over...