In 1931, the Merriam – Webster dictionary adopted the word " Rube Goldberg " as an adjective defined as accomplishing something simple through complex means.

New edition of the 1931 dictionary.

Karlgren ( 1931: 46 ) explains that the book " is not a dictionary in abstracto, it is a collection of direct glosses to concrete passages in ancient texts.

In 1931, Kenkyūsha undertook a major revision in the dictionary by expanding upon former entries and adding newer ones.

' The name Jehovah's witnesses, based on Isaiah 43: 10 – 12, was adopted in 1931.

With the advent of sound technology, Chaplin immediately adopted the use of a synchronised soundtrack — composed by himself — for City Lights ( 1931 ).

The club has had two other nicknames, The Robins, adopted in 1931, and The Valiants, chosen in a fan competition in the 1960s which also led to the adoption of the sword badge which is still in use.

It was slightly modified and adopted in 1931 under the name of Nieśmiertelnik wz.

* The Irish Free State never formally adopted the Statute of Westminster, although motions of approval of the Report of the Commonwealth Conference were passed by the Dáil and Seanad in May 1931.

By a law signed on March 3, 1931 by President Herbert Hoover, " The Star-Spangled Banner " was adopted as the national anthem of the United States.

The countries ' central banks lost substantial reserves ; international financial assistance was too late, and in July 1931 Germany adopted exchange control, followed by Austria in October.

In 1931, Parliament adopted an Act to amend the Armistice Day Act, providing that the day should be observed on November 11 and that the day should be known as " Remembrance Day ".

Finally, for the 1931 awards, the modern system in which individuals are nominated for a single film each was adopted in all profession-related categories.

Those who maintained fellowship with the Watch Tower Society adopted the name Jehovah's witnesses in 1931, while those who severed ties with the Society formed their own groups including the Pastoral Bible Institute in 1918, the Laymen's Home Missionary Movement in 1919, and the Dawn Bible Students Association in 1929.

Upon the death of their mother two years later ( in 1931 ), he and Nancy were adopted by their maternal aunt, Gretl, and paternal uncle, Sidney, who married and had a son named Peter.

When a coalition " National Government " was formed in 1931 to deal with a financial crisis Dunglass was adopted as the pro-coalition Unionist candidate for Lanark.

The arms were granted in 1931, and are based on a device used by the Hampstead Vestry without authority, and adopted by the Council on its formation in 1900.

Fraser's Government had proposed to adopt the Statute of Westminster 1931 in its Speech from the Throne in 1944 ( two years after Australia adopted the Act ), in order to gain greater constitutional independence.

In 1931, the current name was officially adopted.

It was adopted as the state song in 1931.

Initially, all executions were performed by hanging ; lethal gas was adopted as the method after 1931.

The UK Parliament's power to legislate with effect for the Commonwealth itself was mostly ended with the Statute of Westminster 1931, when adopted by Australia in 1942.

Stafford Smith is best known for writing the music for " The Anacreontic Song ", which became the tune for the American patriotic song The Star-Spangled Banner following the War of 1812, and in 1931 was adopted as the national anthem of the United States of America.

It was adopted in 1909, and changed once in 1931, when the state seal was modified.

Kobe designated the six largest cities as special cities in 1922, and adopted the ward system in 1931.

The position of the Emperor and the Line of succession were strictly defined in both of the constitutions adopted during the reign of Haile Selassie: the one adopted on July 16, 1931 ; and the revised one of November 1955.

The word supernova was coined by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1931.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

In 1930 Hay enrolled in Stanford University, and in 1931 he came out as " temperamental " ( then a code word for " homosexual ") to friends and classmates.

Stanisław Leśniewski coined " mereology " in 1927, from the Greek word μέρος ( méros, " part "), to refer to a formal theory of part-whole he devised in a series of highly technical papers published between 1916 and 1931, and translated in Leśniewski ( 1992 ).

Previously the word praxiology, with the meaning Espinas gave to it, was used by Tadeusz Kotarbiński ( in 1923 ) and some time later by several economists, such as the Ukrainian, Eugene Slutsky ( 1926 ) in his attempt to base economics on a theory of action, the Austrian Ludwig von Mises ( 1933 ), the Russian, Nikolai Bukharin ( 1888 – 1938 ) during the Second International Congress of History of Science and Technology in London ( in 1931 ), and the Pole, Oscar Lange ( 1904 – 1965 ) in 1959, and later.

The character gwei ( 鬼 ) itself can have negative connotations, even without the word sei ( 死 ), for example when it was attached to the Japanese military in the term " Guizi Bing " ( 鬼子兵 ) during their invasion of China which lasted from 1931 to 1945.

The word carny is thought to have become popularized around 1931 in North America, when it was first colloquially used to describe " one who works at a carnival.

This had been part of the course of events which resulted in the passing of the Architects ( Registration ) Acts, 1931 to 1938 which established the statutory Register of Architects and monopolistic restrictions on the use of the vernacular word " architect ", imposed with threat of penalty on prosecution for infringement.

He visited Hamond in early January 1931 and also met the churchwarden of Stiffkey who told him the rector was the best priest they ever had and warned Dashwood that he would find no one to say a bad word against him.

Track 5 on Edelrost, entitled " Eiserne Menschen " ( English: " Iron Men ") uses spoken word samples from the German film Mädchen in Uniform from 1931.

Raymond Bloom " Rube " Bressler ( October 23, 1894 – November 7, 1966 ) was an American left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1914 to 1916 and Cincinnati Reds from 1917 to 1920, before being converted to an outfielder and first baseman for Cincinnati from 1918 to 1927, the Brooklyn Robins from 1928 to 1931 and the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals in his final year of 1931.

Buckland summarizes the very advanced pre-World War II development of microfilm-based rapid retrieval devices, specifically the microfilm-based workstation proposed by Leonard Townsend in 1938 and the microfilm and photoelectronic based selector, patented by Emanuel Goldberg during 1931.

He told his first biographer Isaac Goldberg in 1931:

In 1931, Goldberg married Dorothy Kargans.

She was the first person to record Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations on the harpsichord ( 1931 ).

On a crisp day in the fall of 1931, Dr. Saul Silberstein, a student of Sigmund Freud who was doing post doctorate work on his book, Jewish Village Mannerisms came into the Goldberg cobbler workshop to have his shoes repaired.