Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...papers. They asked Jackson to sign them. He did so by smudging his thumb in ink and across the documents. One of the men (Barnett guessed they were lawyers) later told him that he had given to the American Baptist Home Mission Society $550,000 of his royalty oil account, and a like amount to his wife...
...Correspondents learn that, in addition to lunching, the delegates held a secret session in the Bank of France at which they unanimously besought Mr. Young to chairman the second Dawes Committee, on account of the leading role which he played on the first Dawes Committee. Since President Calvin Coolidge has intimated that he would prefer a European chairman, Mr. Young is obliged to query the White House by cable, in code. Signor Benito Mussolini has meanwhile observed in Rome: "To assemble the committee has cost four months of time. It is to be hoped that its labors will proceed more...
...ground electricity and its spark act in a definite fashion. Perhaps that fashion changes when the plane is high in the air?powerfully lifted against the earth's force of gravity and swiftly moved with or against earth's rotational force. The possibility of such change may account for some airplane accidents. Perhaps such possible changes can be foreseen, calculated, forestalled. Perhaps?not to venture upon any more specific perhapses-?he pull of the Einstein intellect will raise mankind yet higher by the bootstraps...
Coherent Field Theory. The natural phenomenon for which the general theory of relativity did not account was electromagnetism. Dr. Einstein in 1905 had shown that electricity and magnetism were different aspects of one world activity. In 1919 he showed that gravity was another world activity. It was impossible, he believed, that gravity and electro-magnetism were two distinct world activities. His Riemann metric must be inaccurate...
This book stands as a reminder that we moderns are the immediate heirs of the middle ages. It is an absorbing account of the political social, economic and cultural development of the most interesting period of European History...