Word: watt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Watt Paper...
...together, the International Management Congress convened in the U. S. for the first time. Somewhat self-conscious about their messages of international cooperation, all but one of the 2,000 delegates from 21 nations tactfully avoided reference to last week's Czechoslovakian crisis. The one was Robert J. Watt, American Workers' Delegate to the International Labor Office. To avoid further offending visitors, five paragraphs of his speech relating to "Fascistic brutality" were cut out of the printed copies distributed to the press. Czechoslovakia's official representative, wiry little Dr. Emanuel Slechta, limited himself to a deft understatement...
...nine: W. Ellison Chalmers, William H. Davis, Marion Dickerman, Lloyd K. Garrison, Henry I. Harriman, Charles R. Hook, Anna Marie Rosenberg, Gerard Swope, Robert J. Watt...
This couplet, chanted by Gregory Edward Toole (microphone name: Willie Winn), is an idle boast, for his voice carries no farther than 1,000-watt WAAF (Chicago) can send it-about 100 miles. Chicago hears Willie Winn every morning predicting how each of 96 horses will finish in the afternoon's races. And Chicago plays his tips...
...laboratory Dr. Perry induced unseasonable sex activity by shining ordinary 25-watt lamps on sparrows much less than a year old. The beaks of the males turned dark and their testes developed spermatozoa; the ovaries of the females were swollen, contained numerous eggs. The scientist evoked even more pronounced gland changes with ultraviolet light...