Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benes; a short conference at his hotel with non-Nazi Czech Germans...
...Walküre (Sat. 11 a.m., NBC-Blue). Part of Act I by short wave from the Bayreuth Wagner Festival...
Last week, the U. S. Navy reported a successful dive to 402 ft., using the helium-oxygen mixture. The Navy record was still 18 ft. short of Nohl's mark. The Navy also announced an "artificial dive" in a pressure chamber duplicating the pressure 500 ft. down, indicating that actual dives to that grim depth may soon be accomplished...
...Italy's brilliant Enrico Fermi produced tiny, short-lived quantities of ekarhenium and ekaosmium (Nos. 93 and 94) by bombarding uranium with neutrons. These new substances were entirely synthetic, however, like the many synthetic, artificially radioactive elements which physicists have brought to birth by similar bombardments (TIME...
...expatriate writers left in Europe is Kay Boyle, 35, Minnesota-born. Her short stories and novels still suffer from the elliptical writing that flourished in post-War Paris. They are difficult reading not because her prose is obscure, but because her characters are puzzling neurotics and she does not seem to know...