Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year, 400 men and women lost their jobs on 24 hours' notice, the Rochester newspaper field was left to the morning Democrat and Chronicle and the evening Times-Union, both owned by restless Roosevelt-Baiter Frank Ernest Gannett. The homeless Hearstlings decided that they and Rochester could use an independent daily. This week, after a year's hunt for financial backers, the first issue of the Rochester Evening News, edited by Roosevelt-Backer David Edwin Kessler, appeared on the streets...
...Leyden in Holland, Oxford University in England, the University of California in the U. S. In California the work is directed by handsome, dapper William Francis Giauque, who first devised the method of cooling magnetic salts closer to absolute zero than had previously been done. His method makes use of the principle that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down one notch further into the cold. By repetitions of this cycle...
...world record low is held not by Dr. Giauque but by the Dutch scientists in Leyden, who have used his system and reached the astounding figure of .0044°. One reason for this is that the Leyden researchers work with magnetic fields up to 27,600 gauss (magnetic units), whereas Dr. Giauque must get along with 8,000 gauss until his university finds the money to string bigger power lines into his lab oratory. Another reason is that Giauque does not regard the pursuit of absolute zero as a competitive stunt, but as a means of studying entropy...
...Three inches is the maximum stretch. The tendons are also snipped in a Z-pattern, pulled to the desired length at once, stitched tight. Blood vessels, nerves and smaller muscles adjust themselves naturally. Five to eight months after the operation, the pins are removed and the patient again has use of his leg. If the operation is performed on children around 12, the short leg usually grows in length as fast as the normal leg. In a few cases, when patients attained their full height, they discovered that the normal leg had outstripped the short one by an inch...
...hero-worshiper, she considers Lenin chiefly responsible for the weaknesses of the modern revolutionary movement, says she often remonstrated with him about ruthless Bolshevik tactics. Closing one eye, he would stare at her "with an expression which was more sad than sardonic" and ask, "Comrade Angelica, what use can life make of you?" like a father addressing a naive child...