Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only thing I can see is that the New Deal is a Paul Revere ridin' hell-for-leather down Main Street spreadin' the alarm that the right way is the left way-and funny thing, damn...
...nerve-blocking procedure in which alcohol, acetone and chloroform are used in addition to cobra and other venoms, although serving to alter transmission of impulses from and to the diseased muscles or painful areas and that way accomplishing the desired recovery of the part affected, has no paralyzing effect whatsoever either upon the nerves, muscles or parts. The treatment as applied serves to heal the diseased nerves and the patient is confined to the hospital bed only for a few hours...
...Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco had only with difficulty been persuaded to move up from November to September a bond issue referendum to enable San Francisco, with PWA help, to buy the Hetch Hetchy power lines. And Mayor Maurice J. Tobin of Boston was, to Mr. Ickes' way of thinking, being extremely annoying in the matter of Boston's new city hall. Granted $1,125,000 toward this edifice, Mayor Tobin turned it down, instead sought a WPA grant to renovate the old city hall. Mr. Ickes accused Mr. Tobin, "well wired for sound," of a grandstand...
...areas, were the only refuge for Chinese women from slaughter and rapine. Teacher Minne Vautrin of Ginling reported the admission of 10,000 young women to Ginling grounds: "Never shall I forget the faces of the young girls as they streamed in. ... They had disguised themselves in every possible way -many had cut their hair, most of them had blackened their faces, many were wearing men's or boys' clothes or those of old women...
...London, a brilliant young U. S. scientist is searching for a vanished physicist, his former professor. But when he locates him, the professor denies his identity, frames his onetime protege to get him out of the way. Chief of the shady facts about the professor is that his real name is MacMichael, that he lives in a Mojave Desert hideout called Barstow...