Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...often produce breaks that are too much for veterinary skill or owner's purse. But veterinary surgeons can heal many a horse's broken leg. One method: Cincinnati dentist, Dr. Peter Wehner, uses a cast made of dental stone, says he can mend even a compound fracture. Though Dr. Wehner has successfully treated four race horces, none of his patients has raced again...
While Europe with shaking knees found itself last week on the brink of war (see p. 17), and foreign statesmen hoped that a firm U. S. attitude would help avert it, President Roosevelt performed change of face as sudden, though perhaps not as effective, as that which upset the World Monetary & Economic Conference in 1933. Apparently fearing that his and Secretary Hull's recent, repeated condemnations of autarchies and aggressors too definitely aligned the U. S. with England and France if Germany provoked a war, Mr. Roosevelt suddenly lashed out at "some" U. S. editors and columnists. He said...
Despite the inevitable self-consciousness of this buildup, Baltimore's union men and their families found plenty to look at and plenty to like in the museum's galleries. Most of the 106 items of painting and sculpture were by good contemporaries, though two of the best were Millet's Woman with a Rake, lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Monet's Les Déchargeurs de Carbon. The artists ranged from such ununionized souls as Academician Jonas Lie and Merrymaker Doris Lee to Proletarians Joe Jones and Mervin Jules. The subject matter...
...used as fuel, fertilizer, insulator, wallboard material, wrapping paper, cloth base. Exide Batteries of Canada, Ltd. uses a type of peat for a secret paint which binds rubber to metal. Domestic Scotch whiskey distillers get their vaunted "Highland peat" flavor by charring raw peat inside their kegs. But though the U.S. has 11,200 square miles of peat bogs (only Russia, Canada...
...call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development of the vacuum tube gave amateurs their present range...