Word: sectionally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since such an accusation might well force President Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act, and from this China would suffer far more than Japan. By the time the Assembly actually met this week, Dr. Koo and Dr. Quo had not only a "good press" but almost a cheering section behind them. They promptly invoked against Japan three articles of the League Covenant: 1) famed Article Ten, under which League members "undertake to respect and preserve as against external aggression" other members; 2) Article Eleven, which binds League members to act in case of "any war or threat...
...sand, lime and water to form a smooth wall covering, painting it while still wet with wet pigments in extremely delicate and elaborate designs. From that day to this, however, the skill of the fresco painter has depended largely on his speed, because the time limit for doing any section of wall before the plaster gets too dry to absorb colors has never been more than 24 hours. Artists familiar with centuries of failures to extend this limit were electrified last week at a report from Mexico City that a way had been discovered to keep plaster fresh for nearly...
...plaster surface too soft to work on. The final formula was the simplest: equal parts of butanol and water. Muralist Rivera, pleased as Punch, confirmed their claim that spraying walls with this preparation every three or four hours enables a painter to work twice as long on one section or to apply plaster to twice as large an area of wall at one swipe...
Last week, P.A.A. announced that Section Superintendent George Waldo Bicknell, book-browsing in Honolulu, had solved the mystery of Wake's anchor and uncovered a sea story as epic as the voyage of Captain Bligh of the Bounty. As builder and first airport manager at Wake, Colonel Bicknell discovered the anchor imbedded upright in the coral reef mile-and-a-half down the beach, moved it to its present position. A partially obliterated date and three letters at the tail end of a word were its only markings. When he was transferred to Honolulu he continued his quest...
...true recipe for longevity," said Dr. F. A. E. Crew of University of Edinburgh, president of the zoology section, "is to be born a girl." Dr. Crew found informative reading matter in the British Statistical Review of the Registrar-General. In the tables for 1935 he found that in England and Wales 105.6 boys were born for every 100 girls. Of babies who died in the last three months of pregnancy there were 110 boys to 100 girls. And after birth the mortality rate at all ages was higher for males than for females. Thus although boys constituted a majority...