Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vegetables and fruits formerly word not a common source of illness. Overripe fruit or uncooked fruit and raw vegetables that have been improperly cleansed occasionally cause trouble. Recently the extensive use of arsenic sprays of apples, peas, green beans, spinach, cabbage and lettuce has resulted in wide-spread outbreaks of acute gastro-intestinal irritation. Cider has been a prominent source of acute upsets, due to arsenic residues. Arsenic produces almost exactly the same symptoms as decomposed protein...
Even the magic word "Veritas", which adorns probably the only two official sundials in the University does not seem to suffice to keep them in the straight and narrow...
...defense of that shrewd man who managed to slip out from under five successive decaying governments before they fell and keep his political power at an almost constant zenith. Crane Brinton does not attempt to picture Talleyrand as a "good" man in the ethical sense of the word; but he insists that he is just as "good" a man as those parliamentarians of the French Revolution who asserted that all men are free and equal, and then promptly turned around to draw up a constitution that heavily restricted the franchise. The only variance in the analogy as applied to Talleyrand...
...claimed that the members of the Executive Council of the International Seaman's Union, whose word is final in all matters, were "stooges of the ship-owners"; that they made their decisions without submitting them to the members of the Union, and that they had entirely disregarded the results of a referendum submitted to the seamen...
...York World's Fair will open April 30, 1939, the 150th anniversary of George Washington's inauguration (in Manhattan) as first President of the U. S. The anniversary is more a coincidence than an excuse and the word "sesquicentennial," of unhappy memory since its association with the Philadelphia Fair of 1926, has been studiously avoided in the publicity. To give New York's Fair elbow room, the Fair Corporation and the City of New York chose a site about 18 minutes northeast of Manhattan on a tidal wasteland outside Flushing, L. I. It happens...