Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accompaniment to these woodwinds of theory was the resounding brass of a world-wide market break more immediately illustrative of Mr. Saperstein's point than of Mr. Gay's. In London, where commodity prices cracked early last month after Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncement on their high levels (TIME, April 19), stock speculators rushed to sell on news of Britain's higher industrial profits tax. In New York the market slide which began in March became a small avalanche, carrying U. S. Steel common down 10 points to 98, Chrysler down 6, Allied Chemical down...
...schoolteacher Alcott was a heretic from the start. His innovations-all aimed at drawing out rather than cramming the pupil-drew wide and often unfavorable attention. By the time he had married and started his famed Temple School in Boston he was known as an educational revolutionary. The Ph. D.'s of the day considered him a rank incompetent. "He turned over and tumbled up and down at least a thousand of the most influential books in the world . . . yet the total result never amounted to anything in the least like erudition. His faculty for ignoring and forgetting...
Loch Ness, largest of Scotland's lakes (22½ mi. long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following...
...Roll Along, Accent on Youth) has been playing erring dramatists so long he should be able to present the required blend of boyish and goatish behavior even though in the throes of somnambulism. Linda Watkins (June Moon) is equally adept at impersonating the girl whose shrewdness is masked by wide-open eyes and naive questions. Between them, they should manage to keep Penny Wise on the boards well into the peony season...
Blakeslee, director of the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island, produced 45 tablets of mannose, a sugar which is extracted from manna, a mildly cathartic gum secreted by certain Oriental trees. Mannose is notable for the wide variety of taste reactions which it causes. Dr. Blakeslee gave one tablet to each of the 45 members of the American Philosophical Society assembled before him. At a signal, all the savants raised their hands in unison, put the tablets in their mouths. Eighteen reported a sweet taste. Others said it was bitter, some said it was both...