Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...published his best-seller-Northwest Passage. In the rise & fall of No. 1 Indian Fighter Major Robert Rogers, Roberts had a dramatic theme. He had also learned a lot about writing. Northwest Passage sold like hot cakes, was bought by M. G. M. for a Spencer Tracy movie...
...Washington who was just as anxious to get rid of Congress as Congress was anxious to leave was Capitol Architect David Lynn. Since 1938, Architect Lynn has been expecting the Capitol roofs to fall in. The 120-ton ceiling over the House, the 90-ton ceiling over the Senate, constructed of ornamental glass and wrought iron, hang from cast-iron trusses. Tests have shown that some of the trusses have shifted as much as an inch and a half under the stress of snows, winds, years...
...Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, saw Providence in the Kalamas River's first flood in 128 years. Using the same device they pressed their counterinvasion of Albania on the northern end of the front. Corizza (see map, p. 21}) was on the point of falling as the week began, was still about to fall as it ended. The reason for the delay was simple: Corizza lies in the centre of a bowl of mountains. The Greeks could not rush down into the dish until they had patiently stormed the entire rim, or else the Italians...
...Pierce Laval went back to Paris to implement this protest, to bargain for the Lorrainers and on other matters. He might not get his way on everything, but there were two German fears which might win him some concessions. They were: 1) French colonies in Africa might somehow fall into British hands; 2) French territories in the Western Hemisphere might be"taken"by the U. S. Both fears were sharpened a little last week...
When Kamiya plots the rise and fall of the protoplasmic force on a graph, he gets elegant curves. These excite the admiration of Seifriz, who exclaims: "Did you ever see such perfect curves? Nothing like it has ever been done before. It makes biology an exact science!" Furthermore, Kamiya has noted definite changes in the wave forms and amplitudes of his curves. This he takes to mean that Physarum has not just one rhythm but several rhythms acting together. In other words the life throb of the slime mold is not just a simple drumbeat; it is an orchestration...