Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist of Columbia University: "As to blowing up the world by releasing a tremendous quantity of atomic energy-that's most improbable. The worst that could happen is that the scientists might be burned...
City Room. Practically nothing else was talked about in the Worlds' offices next day. There were 2,867 employes. Only a few could possibly be absorbed by the prospective World-Telegram; and times were at their very worst. But mostly they thought of the papers which, however the merit of their news columns might fluctuate, always boasted in their morning sheet "the two most distinguished pages in American journalism"-the editorial page, whereon David Graham Phillips, Herbert Bayard Swope, Walter Lippmann and the late Frank Irving Cobb had swung crusaders' swords; and the "opp. ed." or feature page...
...last week. Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, revered as one of the greatest of British economists, finished reading his report to stockholders of the London Midland & Scottish Railway of which he is chairman. Hisses and groans greeted his statement that the road, largest of British single enterprises, had finished the worst year in its history...
...Worst of all, according to Author Mumford, the new Fair buildings are not really modern at all, but "eclectic shams." Pronouncing "eclectic" with the same fine scorn with which an Insurgent Senator pronounces the word "Republican," Lewis Mumford insisted that the new Chicago buildings are merely pseudo-classical buildings to which the architects have applied details of the new and at present fashionable style exactly as they applied Gothic, Renaissance, Georgian details to their steel frame skyscrapers...
Most civilized European countries manufacture opium, morphine and heroin. All. save the U. S. and Soviet Russia, export it in large quantities and thus supply U. S. smugglers of the drugs. Turkey and Switzerland (seat of the drug-fighting League of Nations) have been the worst offenders. However, Turkey upon the insistence of U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew last week forced Istanbul's narcotic factories to close until they complied with export restrictions. Medicine needs some 350 tons of opium yearly. Manufacturers produce something over 8,000 tons yearly...