Word: departments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scarcely concealed their thoughts. President Coolidge had, they guessed, heard the operators' point of view from Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, whose interests control the Pittsburgh Coal Co., which was among the first to depart from the Jacksonville agreement...
...Foreign Office) at general headquarters and later represented the Chancellor on the Eastern front, where he made himself so thoroughly unpopular by opposing the militarists that he was transferred to The Hague, Netherlands. After the war he was called to the Foreign Office first as head of the Eastern Department and after as State Secretary of Foreign Affairs - the permanent head of the German Foreign Office. His greatest diplomatic ordeal was doubtless in persuading the Kaiser to abdicate. Wilhelm II, at the time he fled from Germany, had not officially abdicated, his renunciation of the throne having been announced without...
...intelligent employer will ask for such information and the sole purpose accomplished by the Bureau in requiring it is to make the sensitive applicant more sensitive and the independent applicant more determined to keep to himself what concerns only himself. The sensitive soul will fill out the blank, depart, and never more return. The independent student will sneer and get a job for himself. In both cases the Bureau fails of its function...
...Heisenberg, young German, on the quantum theory of the structure of the universe. The quantum theory, as originated three decades ago by Dr. Max Planck, denies the existence of matter, as commonly conceived, replacing it with energy in basic units called quanta. As modified by Dr. Heisenberg, quanta depart entirely from such reality as can be apprehended by the senses, becoming terms in pure mathematics. Like the first few people to understand Dr. Albert Einstein, the Heisenberg enthusiasts agreed that the modified quantum theory is of epochal theoretical importance but, to laity, as negligible as it is incomprehensible...
American Reaction. His Majesty's Government in Canada immediately followed last week the example of His Majesty's Government in Great Britain, notified the Soviet Trade Delegate in Montreal that he must depart...