Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret deeply." said President de Valera in the Dail last week, "that I should have given publicity to a falsehood. I tender my apologies to Deputy Mulcahy...
Thou, self-contained yet tender...
...TIME, Sept. 18), but Austrian Nazis have discovered a new game. With a nail, hammer and patience it is possible to change the geometric design on Austrian five and two groschen copper pieces to a swastika. The Treasury announced that these mutilated coins would not be accepted as legal tender. Most amusing was the Battle of the Bands. On the frontier near Innsbruck stands a great mountain, the Zugspitze. Up the Bavarian side clambered a sweating, puffing Nazi brass band. Up the other side went the band of Vienna's favorite Deutschmeister regiment. Near the summit both bands proceeded...
...tree. Plant pathologists have found that elms are now being killed by a fungus, Graphium ulmi. The blight reached the U. S. in 1930 in some Carpathian elm logs shipped from Le Havre. It accompanies the beetle Scolytus multistriatus. This is a small, short-beaked beetle which nips the tender elm bark and shoots near the buds. Graphium ulmi enters the wounds. First external sign of the disease is the wilting and yellowing of leaves. Internally twigs become streaked with brown. The elm is doomed and must be drastically pruned or felled. All cuttings must be burned to prevent further...
...placidly ruminating the gradual developments of the processes of being, regis- tering the vibrations of a psychological country like some august human seismograph whose charts we haven't the training to read." Such esoteric experiments as Have They Attacked Mary He Giggled-A Political Satire, Lucy Church Amiably, Tender Buttons and her monumental The Making of Americans may have to wait for a doubtful posterity to be properly appreciated; but her first and best-known book, Three Lives, will be reprinted this month by the Modern Library, whose editors' ears are close to the ground...