Word: interior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Poland, Two men stepped from the shadow of a stairway in Warsaw's Club of Politicians and fired three mortal shots into Minister of the Interior Bronislaw Pieracki. As they fled, someone noticed that one wore a grey tunic like that of the National Radical (Nazi) party whose newspaper Col. Pieracki had suppressed dav before...
...Japan's Navy did not wait to find out. The gunboat Fushimi already lay in the river opposite Nanking. Within a few hours the destroyer Ashi joined her. Downstream the cruiser Tsushima swung around. Admiral Sunjiro Imamura on his flagship Idzumo was at Hankow. 400 miles in the interior...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...
Northwestern University (Evanston Ill.) President Arthur Cutts Willard of the University of Illinois.... LL.D. Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes.... LL.D...
...Syracuse led off by making Secretary of the Treasury Woodin a Doctor of Music. Secretary of War Dern got an LL. D. from Pennsylvania Military College. Postmaster General Farley became, by grace of the University of the South, a Doctor of Civil Law. Washington & Jefferson gave Secretary of the Interior Ickes an LL. D., as did Lake Forest. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace received an LL. D. from Drake. National University (Washington, D. C.) bestowed an LL. D. on Secretary of Commerce Roper and Bryant & Stratton (Baltimore, Md.) acclaimed him a Master of Business Administration. Secretary of Labor Perkins ended...