Word: compounders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bicycling is one of his hobbies. As a Japanese puppet he dares not leave his palace unguarded, so he rides around and around his garden compound, doing tricks. The Emperor of Manchukuo can now pedal on the rear wheel alone, with the front wheel in the air. Photography is another pastime. Henry Pu Yi likes to show his own cinemas after dinner and complains sometimes that visiting tourists never send him copies of the snapshots for which he is always willing to pose...
...Rutherford suggestions. Meanwhile Professor Urey and the two men who helped him discover heavy hydrogen had dispatched to Nature a letter with barbs under the bland velvet of its phrasing. The three discoverers stated that they had long ago considered and discarded the name diplogen. Reason: "The compound NH1H2/2 would be called di-diplogen mono-hydrogen nitride. . . . Unfortunate is the repetition of the syllable 'di.' . . . "The [British] objection to ... deuterium and deuton seems to be founded upon the possibility of confusing the word neutron and the name deuton. It is interesting indeed that American scientific workers...
Wrote Westbrook Pegler who, at $35,000 a year, earns about 10? a word for his United Feature column: "The piece has been accumulating compound interest, so to speak, for more than 60 years.... I have heard of Mr. Tennyson that he made a contract to sell his entire output to one publisher at a flat rate of $5 a word, sight unseen, and that the publisher suspected him of bad faith when Mr. Tennyson wrote "Break, break, break On thy cold gray stones...
...Whatever a Senior gives to the Fund this year and in each succeeding year until 1959, goes on interest with the general University funds (normally earning about five per cent). At compound interest this money should double in 14 years; so that a dollar given by a Senior now, without any further work or attention on his part, will be worth more than three dollars at the time of his Twenty-fifth celebration...
...Boxer Rebellion, Dr. Morrison of the London Times and Dr. Robert Coltman of the News were besieged in the foreign compound at Peking. A Chinese beggar smuggled their stories to Tientsin. In 1904, the News had a reporter traveling with Kuroki's Army through Manchuria. When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea. Victor Lawson was more concerned with making the News a good paper than running up his circulation, but the News grew with its city...