Word: use
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when the Count and Countess showed up for a hunting expedition arranged by the Regent four hours late with only the excuse they had overslept, there were strained feelings. Latest trip that the Cianos took together was to Poland. There was some speculation that Axis Diplomat Edda would use her wiles to persuade Poland to join the Axis, but nothing came of the trip, and a few weeks later Poland definitely turned her back on Germany and Italy...
Japanese-Manchukuoan troops last week were still trying to drive Soviet-Mongol forces back across the Khalka River. Correspondents who examined prisoners reported that the Russians were employing the poorest sort of cannon-fodder, ignorant conscripts who scarcely knew how to use rifles. The Japanese were, however, having their difficulties with fleets of Soviet tanks and a rejuvenated Air Force. New and better planes from bases in Siberia suddenly appeared and scattered high explosives and what imaginative Japanese officers said were "germ" bombs...
...hearings, issued a huffy disclaimer: "It has not been the practice of the Communications Commission in the past nor is the intention of the Commission now ... to require the submission of any program, continuity or script for editing, modification or revision, or for any other purpose prior to its use by a station...
...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
Previous-lightning measurement has relied mainly on the oscillograph, which records the changing intensity of a bolt by means of an oscillating electron beam playing on photographic film. The fulchronograph is not only cheaper to use, says Westinghouse, but furnishes a clearer lightning picture...