Word: multi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These causes are rooted in the inner weaknesses of the Polish State. Poland is a multi-national State.*The Poles constitute only about 60% of the population of Poland. . . . Poland is inhabited by no less than 8,000,000 Ukrainians and about 3,000,000 White Russians. ... It would appear that the Polish ruling circles should have established normal relations with such important national minorities. . . . Instead the national policy . . . was characterized by suppression and oppression of national minorities. . . . Regions in which the Ukrainians form a majority of the population were subjected to extremely rude and unscrupulous exploitation by Polish landlords...
From the Burbank plant soon came Lockheed's first bimotored, all-metal plane, the Electra, a speedy airline job, then the Lockheed 12 and finally the 14, rated in 1937 the fastest multi-engined commercial plane in the world. This year the Lockheed plant turned out the two-engined P-38, one of the world's fastest pursuit ships. Lockheed is now working on a new Electra and the four-engined Excalibur, scheduled for test flight-next summer...
...fight, selling four operating companies to Government competitors, leaving Willkie (of whose Commonwealth & Southern system Bond& Share is a 5% owner) to shift for himself, taking a loss of $2,433,209 on the deal. Finally, Groesbeck submitted to SEChairman Douglas a scheme for integrating his multi-regioned system which sprawls across 33 States, embraces 119 companies, and looks as hard to hook into one chain as the Appalachians and the Rockies...
...muddy footsteps in the basement of University Hall. House dances are flitting momentarily across the weekend horizon, glowing like meteors for a brief instant before expiring with a dull thud. Employer and employee, like two antlered moose, have clashed their horns and now stand panting. Countless thousands of multi-syllabled words are gouged out of textbooks and, still squirming, are grafted into theses. Scholarship applications are sorted into neat piles, and a termbill, soon to flutter into every mailbox, is being reckoned in Lehman Hall...
Trickier to get on and off than an old-fashioned boiled shirt, hemmed in by a landscape as disheveled as a Congressman's collar, the trapped and trammeled Washington-Hoover Airport has since 1926 been a fliers' nightmare. Landing or taking off in the big multi-motored planes that for the last decade have carried most of the U. S. air commerce, pilots have had to duck and dodge three 800-foot radio towers, a clump of tall brick factory chimneys, a snaking Potomac lagoon, a blimp hangar, the U. S. Experimental Farm and, until a month...