Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Executive Secretary Joseph Green of the State Department's National Munitions Control Board signed a license for the shipment to Germany of 2,000,000 cu. ft. of helium for Nazi dirigibles (TIME, Jan. 17). For making the first break in the U. S. Government's virtual monopoly of the world supply, the Board forestalled anti-Nazi criticism by explaining: 1) that U. S. stores are adequate for several hundred years; 2) that the U. S. could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably in oxygen tents); 3) that...
Journeying north to the snowless Dartmouth Winter Carnival after three weeks of virtual inactivity during the examination period, the Crimson sextet will tangle with the Indians tomorrow in the first of a home and home series...
...right to finance power plants with PWA funds. In retirement, he will live in Washington, stand ready to serve occasionally in crowded lower courts-like Justice Van Devanter (see p. 18). Since all eight remaining Justices, except Minnesota's Butler, come from East and South, it seemed a virtual certainty that Justice Sutherland's successor onetime (1925-33) Senator from New Mexico, but every political wiseacre had his tip on the probable choice. The House Judiciary Committee did not neglect to send the President a resolution asking him to appoint its chairman-Texas' Hatton W. Sumners...
...farmhouses in the hills of Connecticut, the Beards turn out their fat, factual pamphlets on governments, armies, women and businessmen. In a huge, drab, wooden building that was once a boys' school, Charles and Mary Beard, now engaged on a history of the past ten years, live in virtual retirement with no telephone or radio. But each winter they visit Washington, D. C., where Charles Beard sees his good friends Senators Norris and La Follette, Justice Brandeis, Secretary Wallace, and keeps an educated eye open for signs that Congressmen and Senators are doing what his books show they have...
This next step will make the boy and girl for a time virtual Siamese twins. Dr. Moran will cut the upper end of the tube of skin free from John's armpit and sew the end into the flesh of Clara's scarred abdomen. For five weeks the children will lie bandaged immovably together while John's blood nourishes the tube of flesh from one end until gradually-if the operation is successful-Clara's blood joins in nourishing it from the other. This it will presumably do without difficulty because John and Clara have...