Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Chairman Simeon Davison Fess last week to scent another dark plot. Said he: "Some leading Republicans are beginning to believe there is some concerted effort on foot to use the stockmarket as a method of discrediting the Administration. Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops...
Efficiently the police charged. In street after street their method was the same. A double line, stretching from wall to wall, rushed down the street at a run, rubber clubs flailing. Persons who "resisted" or could not get out of the way fast enough were arrested. Nearly all were set free as fast as dunder-headed policemen marched them before intelligent Berlin judges...
...absolutely ruinous because the glue attracts dampness.* Let me point out to the chemists of the world that there is an excellent field for them in the search for a non-hydrous glue." Mechanical-minded Professor Koegel of the Karlsruhe Technical High School came forward with a new method of registering the authenticity of paintings: two wafer-thin sections are to be sawed from a steel cable, one inlaid in the painting, the other deposited in a central identification office. Microphotography will identify the adjacent surfaces of the cable...
...most" is caused by the propeller itself.*The Aeronautics Research Division of the Department of Commerce has been studying the problem for two years, is still uncertain as to the exact process by which propeller noise is created. Of the solution, however, it is certain : "The only positive method known of reducing propeller noise is to reduce the tip speed by using a geared propeller." Geared propellers are in use, will be more generally adopted as difficulties of weight and construction are overcome...
...sparkle and distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought to fame when she popularized the Parisian songlet Si Tu Vois Ma Tante...