Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus-for the short term-greater or less Chinese success in resisting Japan is directly dependent: 1) upon how much finished war material the Soviet Union is willing and able to ship over remaining inland routes, as the Japanese have already cut the best; 2) on Chinese ability to equip themselves with the products of new arsenals set up in the Wild West...
...personnel manager. They could not understand at first that he was saying their only chance for life was to wrap the blankets around their heads, dash downstairs through the flames. He was seen to offer to lead the way. The three salesgirls took the blankets and followed for a short distance, then their nerves cracked. Although brave Louis Frichet kept pleading with them and trying to hold them back, all three salesgirls finally, rather than face the flames, leaped off the roof to death. Alone with his blanket, the personnel manager began his delayed trip downstairs. It was too late...
...animal is placed inside a big squirrel cage which revolves when the creature runs. A faint musical tone sounds, followed after a short interval by a mild electric shock administered through the bars of the cage. If the animal runs the turning of the cage switches off the current, thus sparing the subject further shock. After a few experiences the dog, cat or guinea pig learns to avoid shock by running the moment it hears the musical signal. When this conditioned response is set up Dr. Culler can easily find the threshold of hearing by steadily diminishing the loudness...
...high; 2) a horizontal wage cut would not meet the emergency since the savings would not go merely to the needy roads; 3) a wage cut would run counter to the present trend of U. S. wages; 4) the railroads' distress since October 1937 is still a short-term situation which the current improvement in business may correct; 5) therefore, the roads should drop the whole idea...
...football teams lined up opposite each other this afternoon will mathematically symbolize other parallelisms than past football glories at times extinguished. For the two brightest galaxies in the entire academic firmament of American are those of Harvard and Chicago. Within the space of its short life, the latter has produced a Breasted for almost every Kittredge, a Millikan for a Whitehead. And if Harvard, regards, itself as the leader in educational, innovations, it may well wink at Chicago's introduction of quarterly sessions, of learn as-fast-as-you-can methods. Europe's unblessed--the great martyrs of Democracy...