Word: appeared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Today" column: "Another Christmas has come. . . . Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-six years ago . . . 'Peace on earth, 'good will toward men'. . . ." Before he could finish, Mr. Brisbane was tired out. His son Seward furnished the final paragraph, the first writing not actually by Arthur Brisbane ever to appear in the daily editorial column he had turned out for 39 years. On Christmas morning, the sick old editor's physicians prepared an oxygen tent, but could not use it, for Death had come to Arthur Brisbane...
...performance, spectators found it in her customary grand manner. In a sarong and dark makeup, she was perfectly at home in another of her bravura roles which please her devotees best and which have led her privately to observe that an actress of her stature cannot afford to appear in a good play...
Plans for the twenty-fifth reunion of the Class of 1912 were started under way with the appearance of the "Twelve Twenty-Five Express," first issue of the Class magazine. Other issues will appear in March and June...
...Science this month Professor Einstein published a brief communication entitled "Lens-like Action of a Star by the Deviation of Light in the Gravitational Field." It appeared that a Bohemian-born dishwasher named Rudi Mandl had come to him with an idea which he wanted the good grey sage of Princeton to formulate in mathematical terms. The idea: that in a certain very special circumstance the space-curvature around a star would act like an optical lens on the light from an-other star. Einstein showed that if an observer viewed two stars, one much farther away than the other...
...smash London monopolies, and England in turn encouraging colonization to smash Spain. The trading companies themselves were usually split with factional fights among their directors, riddled with graft. They organized and abandoned colonies as it suited the strategies of their ceaseless struggles at home. Although John Smith and Pocahontas appear in Professor Andrews' chapters on Virginia, they receive less attention than the tobacco trade, seem scarcely more significant than a strange stock company known as "The Society of Particular Adventurers for Traffique with Virginia" which was formed to exploit the colonists. Also novel in Professor Andrews' first volume...