Word: creation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That the creation of the world occurred in the manner and time recorded in Genesis...
Naturally enough, the first half of the book, dealing with the astronomy, geology and biology of the earth's creation, is far more satisfying than the second. The chapters which take the world up to the dawn historic civilization are written convincingly, with graphic power. There is no diminution of strength later, but the mass of fact and conflicting forces which makes up modern history does not lend itself to sketchy treatment. To dismiss the Renaissance and the Reformation in sixty pages is not easy, but with his evolutionary theme supplying the background the author handles the task without smacking...
...press. In Manhattan a few hours later Albert Henry Wiggin, chairman of the Chase National Bank and of the Chase Securities Corp. and director of many a banking, railroad, public utility and industrial concern received U. S. reporters. Both men had the same announcement to deliver-the creation of the Finance Company of Great Britain & America Ltd. with ?2,040,000 (about $10,000,000) capital. Chase Securities and Imperial Chemical Industries are to own and sell equal amounts of the common stock...
...Both send cables overseas, this being an especially large part of the Mackay business. But, as not everyone knows, the only U. S. communication company owning extensive telephone and telegraph wires in foreign countries as well as extensive cables between many countries is the International Telephone & Telegraph Co.,* the creation of Sosthenes Behn and J. P. Morgan...
...produce the cosmic ray discovered by Dr. Millikan. On the side of philosophy, the tearing-down process of radio activity represented by the disintegration of heavy atoms into lighter ones, has been known for 30 years. Why, then, should there not be a building-up process represented by the creation of elements from positive and negative electrons? Dr. Millikan's experiments indicate that there...