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...future hope. But now he never saw Abe ; business opportunities were coming thicker ; soon there would be no future. Hugo tried to still his despair with drink and women. Meanwhile his wife had taken a lover. To make Hugo notice, she finally had to tell him; they had a fervid reconciliation, a second honeymoon. Feeling calmer, Hugo then closed up his business, prepared to spend the rest of his life in poverty, studying mathematics. Thunderstruck, his wife left him for good. Hugo, sure of himself at last, went off to find his old friend...
...matters stand now Great Britain will have built up to the full Treaty limit by 1936 and Japan will have exceeded her proportion of the famed 5-5-3 naval ratio. Despite President Roosevelt's fervid interest in naval shipbuilding as a counterirritant to unemployment, the U. S. will not be up to Treaty par before...
...common sense but for the theory of Relativity. Timidly at first but more boldly of late, some astronomers have suggested other possible causes for the redshift, viz. cosmic dust scattered through space or a slowing of light's velocity after millions of years of travel. Once as fervid a believer in the expanding universe as Sir Arthur Eddington, Dr. Hubble was ready last week to admit that it might be an illusion. "The cautious observer," said he wryly, "refrains from committing himself to the present interpretation and employs the colorless term 'apparent velocity...
...nation-wide radio hookups. It was soon clear to most of his listeners that the President had come to state his policies on Latin-American affairs rather than praise his Wartime chief. In the few passages where Wilson was touched upon, however, his former disciple was affectionate if not fervid. While assuring his audience that "we do not contemplate membership," President Roosevelt tried gallantly to put a good face on the scuttled League of Nations. He felt himself on surer ground when, praising Wilson's advocacy of peace, he declared: "The imagination of the masses of world population...
...Duke University, Durham, N. C., student delegates from every State and Territory participated in a Democratic Convention sponsored by politically fervid law students. Amid typical convention scenes, Owen D. Young was nominated for the Presidency, after a prolonged deadlock between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Newton D. Baker had thrown the assembly into an uproar. William ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray turned a surprising upset by being unanimously acclaimed the party's choice for the Vice Presidency. Other nominees: Joe ("Arkansas") Robinson, Albert C. Ritchie, Alfred E. Smith, Jim Reed, and Will Rogers...