Word: formed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Administration has already established the principle of extensive credits to China. . . . What China sorely needs is to have that support take the form of material supplies and planes as well as of credits...
Sabry Pasha's friends were worried about him. As always he was working too hard. The unrelaxing, hobbyless Premier began his day at 8 every morning and worked late into the night. Ever since last June, when Italy entered the war and King Farouk asked Sabry Pasha to form a coalition Cabinet, he had been worried by internal dissension. To begin with, the anti-British Wafdists accused him of pandering to London. The British, also displeased, said he was the King's pawn, and that the King was lukewarm on the war. Then when Italy invaded Egypt, extreme...
...Last year Victor recorded Junior Programs, The Bumble Bee Prince. On current Victor lists are Robin Hood (in the form of a musical play) and Hansel and Gretel (with orchestra), which Junior Programs occasionally sends on tour...
...living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
...Navy's Philadelphia plan was only a tiny phase of a vastly more intricate problem growing out of defense. The problem : how much building-housing, industrial, Army-Navy-will be required for U. S. rearmament? This week ARCHITECTURAL FORUM outlined the problem's massive form, devoted its November issue to building for defense...