Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment: When Governor Herbert Lehman spoke from Albany over Station WOR (Newark), Announcer Richard Brooks stood by, slipped murmured interpolations into the microphone. As though the Governor were talking some foreign language the listeners could not understand. Announcer Brooks used intervals of applause to repeat and interpret sections of the speech. Not only did he report a sip of water the speaker took, but he also declared repeatedly that his candidate had scored heavily on Republican Opponent Thomas E. Dewey. Listeners capable of understanding the speech without translation protested. Others kicked about the announcer's editorializing. The Brooks murmuring...
...five classes a week for all children and adults, except surgical patients, in the psychiatric division. For Bellevue psychiatrists this meant precisely what a new and rangier telescope would mean to an observatory. Day by day they could study in sequence the attempts at expression by mentally sick people. Though the art of individual schizophrenics, among them Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, has been analyzed in the past as a matter of psychiatric routine, Director Karl Bowman of the Psychiatric Division thinks Bellevue was the first to practice such extensive therapeutic use of painting, such systematic study of the results...
...bentonite which he dried out 'in order to ascertain the weight shrinkage. The paper-like lining which surprised him was then deposited. Under the microscope he saw that the minute clay particles had joined together in long chains which matted, making a tough, pliant membrane. This phenomenon, though familiar in organic substances, was not previously known to occur in minerals such as clay.* Dr. Hauser's theory is that the bentonite clay particles are electrically charged, and so line up end to end in chains by polar attraction...
...Though Fiberglas will combine Owens and Corning facilities and abilities, it will be an independent corporate structure, technically a subsidiary of neither. But its board chairman will be Amory Houghton, Corning's president and fourth-generation descendant of that company's founder; its president, Harold Boeschenstein, vice president and general manager of Owens-Illinois. And Fiberglas' 27,500 shares of $100 cumulative preferred, 402,500 authorized shares of no-par common will be sold not to the public but to the step-parent firms...
Back teaching school in an Ohio town across the river, emotional, romantic, enthusiastic Jesse Stuart refused to give up, though friends told him to stay out of Greenup. One of the most prolific writers going, he dislikes teaching school because it cuts his output from 30,000 to 10,000 words a day, hates to get "messed up" in politics, but says: "I am a citizen of Greenup County. I was born here; my people live here; my farm is here. I love Greenup County and its citizens...