Word: uniformly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian troops the Kremlin High Command has thrown against the eastern side of the Karelian bottleneck are probably the most miserable-looking creatures to be seen in uniform in this part of Europe since Napoleon's half-starved soldiers straggled back from Moscow. This is not anti-Bolshevist propaganda, but hard fact...
Author Heriat got his U. S. material when Actor Charles Boyer called him to Hollywood as historical supervisor of Conquest. Himself an actor on the Paris stage and for various European movie companies, Heriat prefers a suede zipper jacket to a uniform, has lately been transferred from the Goncourt subway station to the post of censor at the Hotel Continental...
...diplomatic ferreting in London's Whitehall by the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After a quick change Mr. Kennedy zipped to the White House. It was before 10 a. m., when Franklin Roosevelt goes to the Executive Office. Bobbing in his blue uniform, 68-year-old Negro Butler Charles Green grinned a welcome, threw open both White House doors to grinning Mr. Kennedy...
...ordinary "open-pollinated" corn, fertilization occurs at random, the sperm-bearing pollen being carried to the silk by the wind. For inbreeding, the tassels and silk are protected by paper bags until maturity, and the plants are then self-pollinated by hand. These inbred strains become highly uniform. Finally, promising strains are crossed to combine advantages-long ears, full-kerneled ears, resistance to drought, heat, wind, insects. Since the characters of a hybrid are not always predictable from those of the parents, many experimental crosses must be made for one successful result...
Only other World War II women's organization in France with a uniform-none was uniformed in World War I-is the Section Automobile Feminine Française. This is composed of about 1,200 definitely wealthy women, each owning her own car, for only the rich have cars in France. During the evacuation of Paris by thousands of civilians, most of whom left by train, they dashed about carrying blankets, rood and mail to évacués in their new country homes...