Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That contemptible, outrageous article on Groton School, TIME, July 25, is the silliest thing I have ever heard of. There is hardly a word of truth in that hideous article. How can you print such trash...
...Yale University's Medical School, two years ago, Biologist Leonell Clarence Strong fed oil of wintergreen to laboratory mice with cancerous tumors of the breast. Some of the tumors melted away. The thing that did the trick was the active principle of wintergreen oil, heptyl aldehyde, a fragrant, colorless liquid. With the help of his colleague, Leon Fradley Whitney, Dr. Strong then set to work on dogs. In last week's Science the biologists revealed the following promising results: injection of small amounts of fresh heptyl aldehyde under the skin of ten dogs with various types of spontaneous...
...Love of Mike, with Claudette Colbert, in 1927. The picture that made him tops in Hollywood was It Happened One Night with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in 1934. He had been discovered by Harry Cohn long before that, repaid his benefactor with hits like That Certain Thing (1928), Dirigible (1931), Platinum Blonde (1931), The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933), Lady for a Day (1933). From 1930 to 1932, Capra worked only on pictures written by Jo Swerling. Then Capra, who by this time had the privilege accorded only to directors of proven worth, of collaborating on stories...
...First thing that occurred to the British was sabotage. But the theory was too easy: no Negro was likely to kill a hundred other Negroes to get a train wrecked. At week's end, as investigations started, it appeared that the excitement about the wreck had at least had one result: Liberation Day passed peacefully, without a rising...
...river. They cranked it across the Shrewsbury, made it crawl obediently through the mud and, as a demonstration for skeptical townspeople, even made it scoop up old tin cans and clamshells. It was, says Simon Lake, the first submarine that really performed. Rivals have claimed the same thing for their inventions...