Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugh R. Wilson, U. S. Minister to Switzerland, as he presented it to the bureau of the World Conference for Reduction and Limitation of Armaments. Basically the U.S. proposes that each state assume responsibility for all manufacture of arms within its borders, proceed to control such manufacture through a uniform system of licenses, and forward full information on all munitions deals to a "Permanent Disarmament Commission" paid for by "a special chapter in the budget of the League of Nations...
...shrewd Producer Shumlin (Grand Hotel) knows, plays about homosexuals or children seldom fail. To take the part of impish Mary he looked no farther than Miss McGee who had played in the U. S. stage version of Mädchen In Uniform. Miss McGee, who squeezes the last drop of perverse venom from her characterization, is a reed-slim actress of 23 who can pass on any stage for 13. Born of British parents in South Africa, she was taken to Canada when young, went to the University of Toronto. She has been trouping for four years, is thoroughly sick...
Incubator eggs might hatch better if less attention were paid to uniform temperature and more to reproducing actual conditions beneath a setting bird. That idea occurred to N. A. Meshcheryakov of Moscow's Zoological Park. Eggs beneath a setting mother are several degrees warmer on top than at the bottom. Every time the bird leaves the nest for food or exercise the eggs cool off a little...
...with heating units so placed and controlled as to provide a 2-to-7-degree difference between egg tops and egg bottoms and overall cooling two or three times every 24 hours. Hatchings in his imitative incubator averaged 78% as against 55% obtained on the average in Russia in uniform-temperature incubators. Last week it was reported that Zoologist Meshcheryakov had hat bed every one of a clutch of ostrich eggs, a feat rarely accomplished even by a mother ostrich...
...uniform was ushered into the room...