Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rump," declares Mr. Dale, "doesn't mean 'a portion of the original whole.'" Turn to Funk and Wagnalls "Standard Dictionary": "rump ... 3) Figuratively, the last or poor end of anything; an inferior remnant, spec (R) the Rump Parliament...
...coarse, loose-rolled Macedonias) in the past year,* King Zog developed such a cough that his Italian physician announced that he had completely lost his voice. King Zog was dumb. Alarming news that the dumb Zog's ailment might be cancer of the throat caused European chancelleries to turn anxious eyes on Albania. Despite its bachelor king, Albania is already an Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that the death of King Zog, the disturbances that are almost certain to ensue, would be just the excuse needed for official Italian intervention. With Albania Italian territory...
...turn of the century found the young firm of Doubleday, Page & Co. about to publish a new magazine. Partner Walter Hines Page was to be editor. The magazine was to concern itself with the "activities of the newly organized world, its problems and even its romances." Assisting in early discussions of policy and in the selection of a name was a young man, Russell Doubleday, 28, ten years the junior of his publisher-brother Frank Nelson Doubleday...
Among the delegates moved a man whose face is full of forceful peace and whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody knew and wanted to hear the Very Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Sweden...
Ever since medieval alchemists spent their days and nights in fruitless attempts to turn common metals into gold (see p. 41), man has engaged himself in many an effort at manufacturing substances which Nature has been niggardly in supplying. Last week came evidence of a notable triumph by Science over Nature. European producers of synthetic nitrogen had so completely destroyed Chile's semimonopoly of natural nitrates that the Chilean producers were glad to sign a price-fixing agreement. Headed by Germany's famed I. G. Farbenindustrie, the European nitrogen industry convincingly demonstrated the superiority of mind over matter...