Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duffy. From the back hills he recruited a battalion of young boys, sworn to die in the fight against communism and in defense of the Catholic Church, and that a great many of them did. Last week, with General Franco pounding away at the gates of Bilbao, word came that General O'Duffy's Irish Brigade would soon be on the way back to Britain. The official reason was that since the international non-intervention scheme went into effect fortnight ago, no replacements could go out from Ireland. Correspondents with the Rightist armies had other explanations. Since...
...Janeiro, Presidential spokesmen fastened on the word law, assured all concerned that not a shot would be fired. In Buenos Aires, where Getulio Vargas is a despised Brazilian upstart, the press fastened on the word autonomy, shrieked that Brazil was on the verge of bloody civil war. Upon the commotion then descended the iron Brazilian press censorship which is as thoroughgoing as any in the world. European and U. S. correspondents cabled as little as possible to their editors, judiciously deciding that civil commotion would have to become civil war in fact before it would be worth while to risk...
...down, often with no satisfactory explanation. One of its key policies has been to frown on any proposed extension of one airline or creation of a new one if it will compete with an established service (TIME, March 22). Since the Post Office controls the air mail subsidy, its word is tantamount to law and many a proposed extension has failed to materialize. Denver is such a case. Any new transcontinental line through Denver would compete with United and TWA. Any extension by United or TWA into Denver would compete with Wyoming Air or Varney, which now have...
...Vernon Raymond Haber of Pennsylvania State College seems to have first made the discovery that Epsom salt is poisonous to insects and has been spreading the news to other entomologists by word of mouth. Dr. Haber recommends that a spray of Epsom salt in water be used against Mexican bean beetles. J. H. Hawkins of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station advocates this Epsom salt spray against wheat wireworms. The Frings believe the spray "could be used safely on many vegetables and fruits...
Scarcely did the Harvard men announce this news to the American Physical Society in Washington than from Pasadena came word that Dr. Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of the positron, had independently discovered the new entity in his laboratory...