Word: used
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither did anyone else, but the anti-Jewish handbills scattered by the mob were obviously not prepared by Mexicans. They were written in Castilian Spanish style, which few Mexicans use. They were signed by Ruben Moreno Padres, president of the Nationalist Vanguard, who boasted few months ago that his anti-Semitic activities had the support and the sympathy of the German Legation in Mexico City...
...made of an aluminum-nickel-cobalt-iron alloy called "Alnico," announced some years ago by General Electric (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935). The first researches on its magnetic properties were by Professor T. Mishima of Tokyo Imperial University. Alnico has come into wide use in motors, radios and amplifiers, blowout fields, and in other apparatus where electromagnets (temporary magnets which lose their drawing power when the current which activates them is shut off) are not suitable...
...patch broken bones doctors use everything from rope to chromium nails. Last week in the Lancet, venerable Dr. Ernest William Hey Groves, emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Bristol, told how he had successfully used hunting trophies and soupbones as scaffolding for fractured arms and legs. Examples...
...Gilbert-Varker, Inc. persuaded Big Steel to cooperate in erecting a 300-house, 92-acre subdivision known as Colonial Village. FHA got behind 80% of the project's $1,314,000 total cost, local investment bankers did the rest. Costing $4,200 to $4,800 each, the houses use as much as 7,000 lbs. of steel, compared to the 2,380 Ibs. in the usual small dwelling...
Holmes deplored the use of political influence to obtain teaching positions in public schools, and declared that if the superficial requirements for teachers were to be changed, then "institutions of university rank must lead the way in a very different and much more radical attack on the direct preparation of teachers for their immediate tasks in the classroom...