Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amount of gelatin in the ordinary dessert, he pointed out, is probably less than one tenth of an ounce. No one knows the exact chemical formula of gelatin; it is a complex protein containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen...
...Maharaja of Nawanagar, in western India, promised a tenth of his annual revenue of $3,400,000, was politely put off when he asked to be allowed personally to fight the Germans...
Birth control, group health, euthanasia (mercy-killing), the abolition of capital punishment, eugenics, calendar reform are causes which might seem something dissimilar. Yet in Manhattan last week, representatives of organizations vowed to these six causes met in a united front. This clan gathering, celebrated the tenth birthday of the First Humanist Society, a body devoted to the spread of a man-centred, God-denying religion...
...gorgeous premiere danseuse (Zorina). When timid Junior, pinch-hitting as a black slave in the Russian ballet, gets scared and runs wild, critics rave at the new humorous note, and its "angel" orders the shocked maestro (Alan Hale) to produce Junior's U. S. ballet, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, in which he later does some neat hoofing...
...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...