Word: existences
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus Bernard Mead, timber magnate of Pauquette, Wis. There comes a day when, surrounded by his female relatives, including his spinster aunts, querulous mother, prolific wife and lusty offspring, he begins talking wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry...
...This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...
MacDougall. Skeptical laymen were brought up short when Dr. Murchison read a paper contributed by Professor William MacDougall, Harvard psychologist, who sat on the Margery investigation committee. Dr. MacDougall was frank to say that ghosts, in his opinion, do exist. He lauded Clark University for agitating the question, urged other U. S. institutions to follow suit at once...
Samuel Matthews Vauclain, President Baldwin Locomotive: "Since Nov. 1 hundreds of thousands of Baldwin Locomotive shares have been bought and sold on the stock exchanges. During a brief day last week 44,000 shares changed hands. This is mysterious because only 200,000 Baldwin Locomotive shares exist, and of these only 30,000 to 35,000 are floating on the market. The situation carried the stock from 117 on Nov. 1 to 163% last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain...
...Middle Ages the forestaller, who piled up a lot of goods in order to force high prices from consumers, was liable to get his ears chopped off. Modern monopolies are forestallers incorporated, and are punished, within a particular nation, through anti-trust laws. But no laws yet exist against monopolies (forestallings) in international trade. Brazil controls coffee, Russia platinum, Chile saltpetre, Germany and France potash, Great Britain tin and rubber...