Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one man did these things and at the height of his sudden greatness wagged an explanatory finger at President Hoover (see front cover).* The keynote of 1931 was sounded by Man-of-the-Year Pierre Laval as he sailed for Washington: "A severe correctional and disciplinary period is indicated...
...Never understood in the U. S., the French position was and still is that President Hoover had a perfect right to be as "sudden" as he liked about sacrificing for one year $257,000,000 due the U. S. (that being his own business and Congress not being in session); but that the President had no right "brutally" to insist that France make a similar abrupt sacrifice of $97,000,000. that being Premier Laval's business and the French Chamber being not only in session but twice as angry as Congress when Congress finally convened and voted...
...with her respectable but impoverished uncle and aunt. She was pretty, had imbibed some principles, evolved no real convictions. When she met Dick Pennington, an ordinary, decent, motor-bike-riding young clerk who had been to a third-rate "public school" (U. S.: private), their attraction was mutual and sudden. They married, on very little a week, soon moved into a jerrybuilt bungalow they could not really afford. Then things began to happen. Susan, to her dismay, found she was going to have a baby. Dick lost his job. Payments on the furniture, the rent, were overdue. The baby...
...within a few inches of the tube. Keeping the temperature at 3,000°-600° below the vaporization point of graphite-Engineer Chesnut could drop objects through the tube, watch what happened in the hellish interior. Wood was instantly reduced to vapor, burning as a sudden jet of gas. Rocks quickly became vaporized, silicon and magnesium gases shot out into the air burning with a white flame. The furnace was kept at 3,000° for more than five hours. Iron was put in. It turned to gas, formed a carbide, remained as such while the temperature was raised...
Following this sudden appearance everything was done to make the rabbit feel at home in its own house. It donned the red silk ribbon offered by members of the House, and with the contented smile of a Chinese idol took its place on the "End" table in the middle of the dining room, and there remained till it was missed on Wednesday night...