Word: forth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers observed a variety of tactics on their part. Some boomed forth denunciations of competing organizations, some meekly pleaded for aspirants, while others spoke philosophically of the great cross their organization carried. Jokes were abundant and received varying responses...
Every year at this time the local townsmen sally forth with the late Tex Guinan's greeting on their lips and welcome the Harvards back to Cambridge. They spend all summer thinking up indispensable accessories to the up-to-date undergraduate--banners, magazines, furniture, statues of John Harvard and the Lord knows what--and ten dollar bills don't go far in Harvard Square...
...went into the Sudeten area and came to Pilsen, where the Skoda, factory is, war activities became more and more noticeable. The plant itself was pouring forth war materials on a twenty-four hour a day basis. It was near here, that several Sudetens aired their minds on their side of the picture. "We don't necessarily want to become part of Germany," said one, "all we want is local autonomy. The Czechs won't let us do anything. We can't hold government posts and they force us to learn Czech in school, although we only speak German...
...Examiner, reporters told each other there was something funny about that fire.* When they had nothing more pressing to do, they hung around the neighborhood, asked questions. Last week the Herex, which has hung many a ring-around-the-rosy scoop on its dignified morning competitor, the Tribune, blazed forth with exclusive "confessions" from two poolroom loungers, Frank Kolesiak and Emil Guerrieri, that they started the fire because they were "insulted" by the janitor...
...chlorophyll is heated in certain organic solvents it exhibits chemiluminescence (radiation at low temperatures): gives off "a beautiful red glow." The magnesium or zinc salts of porphyrins also exhibit chemiluminescence when heated in the same manner. Thus chlorophyll not only absorbs light but somehow transforms it and gives it forth again. At present Dr. Rothemund is trying to "correlate the amount of energy dissipated by this radiation to the amount of chlorophyll decomposed, and the energy required to start the process of chemiluminescence...