Word: tion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minor premise: "Rapid presentation, under the noses and eyes of guests, of a great variety of foods, some of which will be eaten later, while some will not, thus tion." exciting curiosity, surprise and imagination...
...TIME in its Oct. 17 issue reported that Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel, president of the American College of Surgeons, said that "The coagula tion caused by the [electro] cautery is more likely to scatter malignant growths than to retard or destroy them." TIME was misinformed. President Kanavel's opinion is "quite the opposite...
...62nd birthday. While the pilgrims watched, dignitaries of the Redding Chamber of Commerce disclosed a bronze plaque fixed to the central peak, and unveiled a $70,000 airplane beacon (which Mr. Macfadden had paid for). The plaque designated the mountain as Macfadden Peak (TIME, July 7) "in recogni- tion of the public services of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, and in honor of his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits of life in Nature's Great Outdoors...
...mechanical refrigeration and centrifugal driers. Like the Jackling copper process, it permits the use of much lower grade ores-as low as 8%, which is less than half the minimum required by the Shanks process. It cuts labor costs 75%, fuel costs 72%. It means that mass produc- tion has come to Chilean nitrate, that the Guggenheims are even more the masters of the show. For the new Chile Nitrate Co. into which the entire industry has been merged will use the Guggenheim. Process. Gradually the many small Shanks process plants will be eliminated. With mass production working...
...Samuel Shipman's old drama of a wife's revenge. It is a problem play, the problem being whether a wife commits a crime when she goes to another woman's home, where her husband has been gambling away his substance, and brings his affec- tion and property home again. Full of theatrical cliches, Lawful Larceny is enlivened by the verbal improvisations and expansive mannerisms of Actor Lowell Sherman and by the skill of Director Lowell Sherman in giving Actor Sherman due opportunities. In spite of its familiarity, it moves fast enough to be fair entertainment. Best...