Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Count, who had thus far preserved a complete incognito in Berlin, said snappishly to reporters: "I am not active politically at present...
...some travelers the International Date Line is disconcerting, but not to Count Leo N. Tolstoi, philosopher, sculptor, playwright, political scientist, third son and namesake of the late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...
...scarcely a "discovery" in any scientific sense. But it was a theory of much originality. Briefly, the theory was this: that traveling in the direction of the earth's rotation, i.e. eastward, is salubrious; and conversely, westward travel is depressing. Count Tolstoi secured many a traveler's testimonial to bear out his generalization...
Last week in Manhattan, Count Tolstoi talked about his theory for publication. "I am no fool," he said. "I have thought about this thing with all the wisdom I have accumulated, and the more I think of it the more I am convinced of its truth. I have discussed it with scientists and writers; some of them I have convinced. My friend Camille Flammarion, the French astronomer, was impressed with what I told...
...Count Tolstoi's enthusiasm even led him to predict that airplane flights from west to east would be more successful, as in the recent past, than east-west flights. He recommended great west-east pilgrimages to improve the health and general well-being of all mankind...