Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Though he enjoys movies immensely...
...last week it looked as though Publisher Patterson's curiosity was about to wind up in either: 1) the biggest fiasco of his career; or 2) the scientific scoop of the decade. Because topflight geneticists would not work with a tabloid newspaper, the News arranged with the commercial Applied Research Laboratories of Dayton, N. J., headed by Biologist Thomas Durfee, to do its experimenting. Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments...
...Frederick Waite, Western Reserve professor of histology and embryology, declared after much study that Paul Revere (though he has generally been blamed) could not possibly have made George Washington's famed, unmanageable dental plates. Reason: Washington had the plates before Revere's dental teacher came to the U. S. from Great Britain. Actual culprit: John Greenwood, Washington's personal dentist...
...James Franklin Jarman was making $35,000 a year in Nashville's J. W. Carter Shoe Co., which belonged to his cousins. According to legend, 52-year-old Shoeman Jarman, a Baptist deacon, felt unchristian making so much money and also found the Carters, though good folk, not devout enough. One day he went alone to Franklin, a tiny town 18 miles south of Nashville, rented a hotel room. All day long, Bible in hand, he communed with the Almighty. When he emerged he was convinced that it was God's will that he form his own shoe...
...temperatures above 15,000,000° C., hydrogen atoms would attack carbon. The carbon atom would disappear for a while, but after a further series of reactions in which three more hydrogen atoms would be used up, the carbon would reappear, ready to be used again. Thus carbon, though not depleted itself, is the agent that annihilates hydrogen, creates energy. A use less end-product, or "ash," is helium...