Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...picked that cotton for Planter Hughes the day before, young Mason would have been paid about 75?. Last week he got $1,000 and the title "first world's champion cotton picker." Descendant of a long line of farm folk, Schoolboy Mason intends to use his prize money for an agriculture course at the University of Missouri...
...even if she had adequate raw materials Germany could not use the plants she holds to the full. In France for example most factories are practically shut down because of flight of the population before the invader and general economic chaos. R.A.F. bombings have destroyed other factories in Germany and German-held territory and transportation has been disrupted by bombing and war. Although she holds two-thirds or more of Europe's industrial capacity, Germany's usable capacity is probably not much greater for the present than before the war. Her chief gain is in having taken reserves...
Some of the high-magnification details of disease germs are too new to be of anything more than academic interest. But eventually, if science follows its historic course, they will be put to use. Probably scientists will soon make visible the viruses, mysterious disease agents small enough to pass through porcelain filters.* They may uncover the genes (unit heredity carriers) in their hiding places along the chromosomes of germ cells. By ultra-high magnifications of cancerous cells, they may shed the ultimate light on the cause of malignant tumors...
...Plaster of Paris absorbs moisture, and the wetter it gets, the lower its electrical resistance. Dr. George John Bouyoucos of Michigan State College made use of this principle in a handy gadget which tells farmers the moisture content of their fields. Blocks of plaster of Paris the size of safety-match boxes are buried with wires leading to the surface. The wetter the soil, the lower the resistance of the buried blocks. Measurements can be taken by merely hooking the surface wires to a Wheatstone bridge, which measures the electrical resistance. By burying a number of plaster blocks...
Warner Bros, didn't use her, wouldn't let anyone else either. Irwin obtained her release and put her into Broadway's Les Ambassadeurs nightclub, where the late great comedy team of Clayton, Jackson & ("Schnozzle") Durante offered a grade of lunacy which their admirers still feel has never been equaled. Ethel was still far from feature billing and remained so until 1930, when she began to reach larger audiences. At a banquet connected with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign for reelection as Governor of New York she added The Star-Spangled Banner to her lusty repertoire...