Word: comeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...witnesses and participants in the case: "I saw in the transportation and industrial situation in central and northern California an opportunity to carry on a constructive work which would be of real value to the country, through the strengthening and expansion of the Western Pacific. Having come to this conclusion, I bought control of the Western Pacific. . . . I see in northern California an opportunity to play my part in the constructive development of a great region...
...things must come an end. Last week there came an end to the almost uninterrupted panic of selling that has fermented U. S. stock markets since Oct. 23. At the beginning of the week the path seemed as clear for further selling as in the summer it had for continued buying. The only thing that stood in the way was reason: long had speculators seemed to ignore reason. For the first three days, Panic held sway. Led by U. S. Steel, stocks dropped to new lows. Again there were tales of a "banking consortium" holding secret midnight meetings, tales...
Replied President Hutchins: "No man can come to the presidency of the University of Chicago without being awed by the University and its past. . . . We are studying and propose to study problems that do not fit readily into the traditional departmental pattern of a university. . . . What is clear is that we must proceed to give opportunities for cooperation to those who have felt the need of them. We must regard the University as a whole. . . . Comparisons of salaries among universities are irrelevant and harmful. For the question is: can we now get the kind of men we want...
Encouraged by numerous screaming girls who had come up for house-party week. Williams neatly won the Little Three championship from Amherst, 19?...
...last lecture of the series, the concept of the cosmoplasma will be developed. It is at once the most mysterious and most fundamental part of the universe, and only recently has come under direct experimental study. In brief, it is the substratum of materials throughout the universe, between planets, stars, and galaxies, that has no obvious systematic organization. Hence it includes such diverse constituents as the high speed shooting stars, interstellar calcium gas, and radiation itself...