Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barkley had agreed to consider early in the current session to avoid a possible filibuster in the closing days of the last one. With antilynching, and the possibility of a major Congressional uproar on the subject of taxation added to the President's highly controversial program, the only thing the special session seemed completely sure of was its full share of fireworks...
...Hamilton moved down into the crowded Loop when it was six years old, because Founder McMurdy believed that "it's easier to run a big thing that people want than a little thing they don't want." In 1910 the Hamilton made front-page national news when Roosevelt I declined to attend a banquet in his honor there because one of the other guests was Republican Boss William Lorimer, whom the U. S. Senate sensationally refused to seat on the ground that his election was fraudulent. In 1912, when Roosevelt I split the club even more bitterly...
...citrus fruits to keep free of scurvy. Within the past five years Vitamin C has been identified, its chemical structure determined, its synthetic preparation accomplished. Albert Szent-Györgyi of Hungary found a substance in animal adrenal glands, ascorbic acid, which turned out to be the same thing as Vitamin C, and extracted large quantities of ascorbic acid from paprika. Walter Norman Haworth of England plotted the architecture of the molecule and Paul Karrer of Switzerland synthesized...
...gilded trappings hung from above, no canvas masonry affronted the eye of the 1937 realist. The play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...
...female. Thereafter, in the normal course of gestation, the primitive gonad becomes male or female, and the rest of the genital apparatus follows suit. But, in an astonishingly frequent number of gestations, something occurs to interfere with the development of the accessory male or female apparatus. The only thing a doctor can do about the matter is-in embarrassing cases-to operate. Dr. Young, who has tried, finds hormone treatment of little avail at present for true or pseudo-hermaphrodites...