Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The proposed exiles were the Doukhobors, that strange, lusty Russian religious sect which the Dominion government welcomed as settlers 30 years ago. The Doukhobors are thrifty and healthy. The Doukhobors are peace-loving. But they have ideas of their own and some of them are fanatics. When they do not...
The next step was the logical one. It was consummated last February, but the general public knew about it only last week, when Weber & Heilbroner exultantly announced that it now owned its own source of supply, that clothing would hereafter proceed from cutting room to fitting room "in one unbroken...
The outstanding chemical experiment of the year was performed last week at Minneapolis where the American Chemical Society was conducting its 78th annual meeting. Only a few score chemists witnessed the demonstration, and of those very few knew what it was all about.
Practically all the chemists who witnessed the experiment believed that Dr. Bonhoeffer had split the hydrogen atom. Newspapers so reported the event. That was ridiculous. The hydrogen atom, simplest of the 92 elements, has a single proton at its centre and a single electron swinging around that centre. The two...
Chesterton v. Wells. On the second day of the Catholic Congress, up reared the portentous bulk of Gilbert Keith Chesterton. England's three greatest publicists are the Messrs. Shaw, Chesterton and Herbert George Wells. Instead of replying to the Shavian sex sarcasm of the day before, Mr. Chesterton elected to...