Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...
...Such stuff stared Clevelanders in the face last week as they opened their newspapers. Cartoon strips told the tale of the businessman who nearly lost wife & job for lack of a cup of tea. And a Robert Ripleyan page of wonders graphically illustrated the fact that if all the tea which the world produces each year were stacked up it would make a structure two-and-one-half times the volume of the Empire State Building. Having persuaded millions of his countrymen to purge their way to pepticity through Feen-A-Mint and to smoke themselves into salubrity with Camels...
...months in advance, though small news papers may buy a canned review in mat form from United Press for $3. Except for a few charts and tables, however, most of the space-filling articles are contributed free by tycoons, sub-tycoons and assistant sub-tycoons. Most of their stuff is "ghosted" by hirelings. The week of business reviews is the one time in the year when a businessman can be sure that his sound-off will not be cut. For pressagents it is the week of business weeks...
OGPU Agents began last week a grand roundup and jailing of Moscow housewives who since the beginning of the buying boom have made a business of stocking up on every sort of household stuff. With screaming headlines in Moscow papers branding such housewives as "Speculators," the OGPU made its most spectacular raid of the week on an eight-family house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among...
...similar to Chekhov's people. Which is why the people in Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost (particularly the latter) have what is called a 'Chekhovian quality.' Which is why it is so sinful to violate their lives and aspirations with plot lines. Plots are primer stuff, easily learned...