Word: vaste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine turning before he had adequately manned the controls. Result was that when he returned to Chicago late last month he found things in a serious mess. Presenting the other side of Pundit Lawrence's picture, Scripps-Howard's Columnist Raymond Clapper reported from Chicago: "A vast organization, scattered among three office buildings, had been thrown together hastily. No one was in authority. Co-ordinate heads of divisions were glaring at each other like strange wildcats. They were quarreling over matters of jurisdiction. Campaign literature was being held up by inability to get final okays, or by stubborn...
Meanwhile the vast Dutch East Indies on the other side of the globe and diked-in little Holland had both tuned every available radio set to hear the Royal Family broadcast officially how they all felt about the engagement of Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Doctor of Philosophy and honorary Doctor of Letters, to Prince Bernhard Leopold Frederic Eberhard Jules Curt Charles Godfrey Peter von Lippe-Biesterfeld, a sportsmanly apprentice employed without pay by the colossal German Dye Trust I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft...
...molecule. But whereas the batches of atoms created or transmuted by physicists cannot even be seen under the microscope, chemists now synthesize molecules after Nature's pattern in quantities that keep factories humming and salesmen humping. Molecules are groups of atoms which act as chemical units. The vast importance of molecular structure is well illustrated by the case of ozone, which is a modification of oxygen having three atoms in its molecule instead of the ordinary two. In the popular mind "ozone" has long been a synonym for pure and therefore beneficial air. Many a tuberculosis researcher has hoped...
Bubble Massage. The main curative agent in natural springs is the carbon dioxide which bubbles through the waters, said Dr. Franz Maximilian Groedel, one-time director of the Kerckhoff Institute, Bad Nauheim, Germany, now adviser to the vast bathing establishment at Saratoga Springs, N. Y. (TIME, Aug. 5, 1935). The gas bubbles, he explained, burst against the skin, massaging certain nerves. The stimulated nerves dilate blood vessels. Some of the gas is absorbed into the tissues and acts on the superficial capillaries causing them to fill. The skin reddens and the increased flow of blood benefits because it relieves...
...Department of Commerce and in the National Museum were equipped with "translators" whereby foreign delegates who did not understand English could, by picking up earphones, hear translations in French, German or Spanish. And finally for the grand banquet Washington's Union Station was hired and its vast waiting room-the only available place in the capital large enough to seat 3,000 guests-converted into a dining room and rechristened the Hall of Transportation...