Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recruiting agents insist that they can give no hint of how the Millennium is actually to be arranged until the event arrives. Agents like Gouverneur Ashwell claim not to know who started I.I.U.R.A. or who is currently running it. According to Mankind United (which I.I.U.R.A.'s members irreverently call "the book"), the organization was started in 1875 by an anonymous group of millionaires who pooled $60,000,000 to fight the "Hidden Rulers of the World." Purpose of the Hidden Rulers was and is to massacre 400,000,000 intelligent, right-thinking members of the globe's population...
There is a vast difference in the conduct of international conferences that are determined on action and the usual gingerly debates of the League of Nations. Sea-potent Britain was obviously going to call this Conference's tunes and she had sent to Geneva her hot-tempered, obstinate Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden. The British plan he brought had already been approved by France, and in short order this week the other conferees sat down and signed it. It provided that "neutral shipping lanes," in general synonymous with the present Mediterranean shipping lanes, be established and patrolled...
...been called a Dictator!" roared "Mitch" in a recent typical speech. "If you don't dictate, they call you 'vacillating!' . . . it's hard to please everybody- but I stand on my record...
...years ago the Old Prospector shrewdly agreed to help give "Mitch" a leg toward Ottawa and the Prime Ministry. Mr. Wright was persuaded by his onetime mining broker, rambunctious young Clement George McCullagh, who bought two newspapers and today Canadian journalists call him "an incipient Hearst." Far from rich himself, Mr. McCullagh paid $2,325,000 for the Toronto Mail and Empire. Its 120,000 circulation was the largest of any Canadian morning paper, and he merged it with the Toronto Globe (85,000) which he had bought for just under $900,000. Today another $4,000,000 is being...
...example of association in fish Professor Gray pointed out that monks in certain monasteries used to call up fish at feeding time by ringing a bell, that this has been duplicated in the laboratory: a bell is rung at fixed intervals before the food is presented; after a number of repetitions, the fish begin moving toward the customary feeding point as soon as the bell starts ringing...