Word: smalleness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...
Radioactive Dust. The instruments that recorded the Russian explosion were many and varied. Atom Bombs that explode in the air form mushroom clouds of intensely radioactive dust that billow high in the atmosphere. The dust particles, so small that they fall very slowly, are carried long distances by the wind. The radioactivity of the test explosion at Alamogordo in July 1945 was detected over Maryland, 1,425 miles away...
...bottom of the bundle, crushed under the burden of his gorgeous vestments, was the dry skeleton of what had once been a middle-aged Peruvian with greying hair. Amid all those glowing colors, he looked small and inconsequential. The diggers, fascinated by the era in which he lived, were not much interested in the man himself. Only one thing about him was worth noting: his legs were tightly folded under his chin because the ancient Peruvians believed that a man should lie m his grave in the position in which he lay in his mother's womb...
...their markets in South America and overseas. On the whole, Harvard's Economist Sumner H. Slichter thought devaluation would benefit the U.S. economy. Said he: "American business concerns have been reluctant to go after business by cutting prices . . . Foreign goods at lower prices will stimulate at least a small amount of price-cutting in the U.S. . . . [And] any success of other countries in selling to the U.S. will simply increase their demand for American goods...
Unable to strike at CHADE, March turned his attention again to Barcelona Traction. In February 1948, an obliging judge in the small Catalonian town of Reus declared that, since Barcelona Traction had not paid the interest on its bonds, it was bankrupt. Franco's authorities moved in, evicted Barcelona Traction's officers from their Barcelona headquarters, and ushered in Juan March...