Word: digit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baker started a newspaper to air his opinions. Science's anonymous contributor quoted an editorial printed this month in the A. M. A. Journal: "By some of the strange influences known only to politicians, President Hoover was induced to apply to a pushbutton in Washington the presidential digit, thereby giving to the presses in Muscatine the electrical juice necessary to induce motion, whereby inked rollers applied to paper aided still further the dissemination of Baker's notions and nostrums. . . . Somewhere, somehow, some secretary succeeded in precipitating the President of the United States into a situation that awaits explanations...
...that with 6% of the world's population, the U. S. has 70% of its life insurance. James Lee Loomis, president of The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Hartford said $108,500,000, 000 life insurance will be in force at the end of the year?first twelve-digit figure of U. S. finance. Of this, $18,500,000,000 will be the 1930 new business. This year $2.200.000,000 is being paid out, a gain of $238,000,000 over 1929. Of every 100 lives in the U. S., 54 are insured...
...TIME of Dec. 23 you quoted Sir James Hopwood Jeans's formula for remembering the value of Pi to the fourteenth decimal as "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapter involving quantum mechanics,'' each word-length indicating a digit...