Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freddie Bartholomew is precise-dictioned and a little more human than usual during the few moments he is on the screen; from then on Tyrone Power (Freddie grown up) continues the adventures of Jonathan Blake. Power is adequate to the part but exhibits a slight inclination toward striking poses. Had it not been for careful directing, he might have carried this tendency too far. Madeleine Carroll makes a lovely, sympathetic heroine...
...Accomplishments by secret servicemen of various Great Powers in committing political murders from time to time with great neatness were well described in Harper's for last August. A favorite weapon is the pistol with Maxim silencer. After its slight "phht" the secret agent, having accomplished a murder which his Government highly approves and considers "vital to the safety of the Fatherland," hails a passing taxi, speeds to the nearest convenient railway station, is usually over the frontier of the country in which his pistol went "phht" before the killing is discovered...
...Absolute Zero, where the electrons would encounter no more opposition than would an army marching through the serried ranks of an enemy frozen stockstill. In practice, the resistance does fall in a smooth curve down to one or two degrees above Absolute Zero where it vanishes abruptly although some slight heat is left in the conductor. Then an electric current started in a ring of lead will keep going around the ring indefinitely. This phenomenon is called superconductivity...
...chairman of the American Medical Association's powerfully censorious Committee on Foods as well as editor of the A. M. A.'s Journal, scolded the Californians as indecent exaggerators. Declared Dr. Fishbein: "All . . . varieties of the orange are excellent sources of vitamin C. To direct attention to slight differences in vitamin C content with the view of capitalizing them is both misleading and contrary to the interests of the public. Such unfortunate publicity tends to defeat the efforts of nutritionists and physicians to educate the public about the importance of the various fruits and other foods that...
...very powerful man to get it off the ground. Six-ft. 185-lb. Icarus Bossi could keep it up only 13 seconds on his first flight, has managed in later attempts to reach a height of 28 ft., speed of 20 m.p.h. from a standing, level start. So slight is the superiority of the human power-plant over friction and gravity that the plane will not take off from any but smooth concrete surfaces...