Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mobilized", that is they are to be transformed into a bond issue which is to be sold to private individuals in all countries. Once in private hands, it will be impossible to scale them down in the future. The other two-thirds are given some 'protection' in the shape of a limited moratorium in case Germany has economic difficulties at home or finds it impossible to make transfer of payments without upsetting the foreign exchange...
...huge blocs of the reparations bonds which Europe hopes to put on the market as soon as the Young Plan comes into effect, thus pouring billions of U. S. dollars into the treasuries of the Allied Powers, and leaving the U. S. investor with security in the shape of a German promise...
Differing Twins. One's ability and personality are not absolutely fixed by birth, but may be influenced by home, school and community, decided Chicago's Frank Nugent Freeman, after noting how twins resembled each other in height, weight, general shape and size, fingerprints, but differed in general mental ability, and still more in temperament and special skills...
...stockings which a moving motor car would make is something which members of the American Mathematical Society who met at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa., last week could figure out-given among other factors the depth and viscosity of the puddle, the weight and speed of the car, the shape and inflation of the tire, the position and shape of the legs. They could calculate something harder than that from sufficient data-the whorling paths of cream as it pours into a breakfast cup of coffee, for example. Factors are what the mathematician asks for. He can describe more accurately than...
...contrary, off center, and that the Milky Way was so full of stars because we were looking through the center. So the Shapley system, or the galactic system, as it is called, held that we were one of countless stars which go to form a system much in the shape of a giant millstone. Determining the thickest part of the Milky Way, Dr. Shapley then determined that the star Sagiltarins was the approximate center of this galactic system, and that we on earth are travelling around Sagittarius at the rate of 120 miles per second...