Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom had a criminal record. When the dust of research settled, Herr Lange's results seemed to show that Galton was right, though Galton had gone too far. Says Introducer J. B. S. Haldane: "An analysis of the cases shows not the slightest evidence of freedom of the will in the ordinary sense of that word. . . . Taking...
...delayed, attempts to obtain the bodies of fog-victims for autopsy), scientists could only guess what may have happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail of a dissipated comet."-Professor Victor Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. "Germs brought from the Near East by the winds which have carried dust from the Sahara Desert to Europe recently, producing muddy rains."-Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Wartime poison gas expert, chemistry professor at Columbia University, Manhattan. "I did not allude to the Bubonic Plague in speaking of the Belgian fog. I said pneumonic plague. I meant ... an acute respiratory infection attacking...
...rattle of hard corn ears hitting against wagon boards as 13 strapping farmers set out to see who was the best cornhusker in the U. S. Drought had made Palmer's stand of corn sparse for a husking bee- barely 60 bu. to the acre-and caramel-colored dust rose from underfoot to get in your nose, but there were not many weeds and that makes for fast husking...
...investment trusts. Although a new management-which includes Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp.; William Frye Cutler, vice president of American Brake Shoe & Foundry Co.; Clarence Dauphinot, president of Frederick H. Hatch & Co.; Philip De Ronde, president of Hibernia Trust Co.; George Kenan Morrow, chairman of Gold Dust Corp.-has taken hold of Prince & Whitely Trading Corp., the situation indicates that this form of financing will continue to decline in popularity...
...criticizes the system of tariff adjustment and refers to it as proceeding in a "haphazard and irresponsible fashion." "To give the farmers higher duties on swine, corn, and meat is a continuation of the old process of trying to throw dust in their eyes." "One is often led to suspect that the pervading process of log-rolling and swapping has ended in changes which some particular domestic interest and its Congressional representative had at heart...