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...Government Printing Office's official text of the hearing, which became a ''best-seller" overnight, Gen. Dawes's profanity was carefully deleted. But newspaper reports of "the phrase which closed an epoch" were virtually unanimous in giving "Hell & Maria." Apparently he exploded the phrase more than once...
Railroad men realized that Mr. James's hammer blows brought an end to an epoch that was slow in closing?the Building Period. Next year when trains run over Great Northern-Western Pacific's new 200-mi. link, no other important construction will be underway. Some 249.000 mi. of track serve the LJ. S. well, perhaps too well. Future changes will be in the construction of systems rather than lines ?construction through financial liaisons; links completed with the signing of checks and the endorsement of stock certificates rather than the pounding of spikes...
...subject of Professor Morize's talk will be "An Epoch in French Literature, 1918 to 1930--From Unrest to Reconstruction." Professor von der Leyen will give an address on "Old and Rare German Manuscripts, from the eighth to the 13th Century...
...most important epoch in Eugene O'Neill's life is not his dismissal from Princeton in 1907 for hijinks, not the period in which he bummed about on ships, not even his long association with the Provincetown Players. It begins on Christmas Eve, 1912, when drink and irregular habits sent him into the Gaylord Farm (Wallingford, Conn.) sanitarium, a tuberculous patient. His biographers note that he went in a boy and came out a man. At least, that was where he started writing seriously. Up to that time his sorely-tried father, Actor James O'Neill, thought...
...life structures on the whole becoming more complex throughout the course of organic evolution. From the viewpoint of physics, life and mind are thus singular and exceptional phenomena, not in line with the movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic epoch we are the spectators of what is perhaps the grandest event in the. immeasurable history of our universe...