Word: plain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baker Boom. Fortnight ago the potent Cleveland Plain Dealer declared for the Democratic nomination and election of Newton Diehl Baker who does not encourage his Ohio friends' efforts to put him into the White House. Last week Martin L. Davey, "tree surgeon" and onetime Congressman, started a "Draft-Baker" movement in Ohio. Modest Mr. Baker again spurned the chance to be a presidential candidate, favored delegates pledged to Ohio's Governor George White, declared bread, not beer, would be the 1932 campaign issue...
...lighter, had risen to the top, evaporated first, leaving the heavier isotope in a richer mixture. At Columbia Professor Urey examined the hydrogen with a spectroscope, found lines only faintly visible in ordinary hydrogen, concluded they were caused by the isotope H². He estimated the proportion of H² to plain H was one to 800. In ordinary hydrogen gas it would...
High in the Andes, Chile and the Brothers Guggenheim are in business together digging nitrates from a vast arid plain. Their company, Cosach, was a major political issue in Chile last autumn and the Brothers Guggenheim were threatened with eviction (TIME, Sept. 14; Nov. 23). Last week smiling new President Juan Esteban Montero ignored a previous commission's philippic which demanded Cosach's dissolution,, and issued through his Minister of Finance a favorable report. Cosach was glad to hear it. The company needed money and could not get it while the inquiry in Chile was under...
...second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...
...LANGUAGE OF THE CONCLUDING PARAGRAPH OF THE COMMITTEE'S REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT [on the Navy League's attack on the Hoover naval policy] QUOTE MANY INACCURACIES FALSE ASSERTIONS AND ERRONEOUS CONCLUSIONS UNQUOTE THE BEVERAGES INDULGED IN BY THE COMMITTEE WERE COFFEE AND CREAM AND PLAIN WATER CHEMICALLY REPRESENTED AS H2O STOP ALAS...