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...Musica-Coster had inflated the firm's assets by $21,025,658. Of this amount $2,869,483 was stolen from the firm. The rest had never existed to be stolen, was an incidental figment of the Coster speculation. Ex phony items: assets on Dec. 31, 1938 were $68,953,095; liabilities, $41,657,064; net worth...
...practiced periodic continence according to his calendar specifications. His patients bring him a written report of the time of their menstrual periods for from six to eight months. These records, said Dr. Miller, have shown "that the old. time-honored 28-day cycle has been largely a figment of the imagination, and that the average healthy woman will have a cycle which varies between a minimum of 26 or 27 days and a maximum of 30 to 32 days...
Ambassador Dodd's letter to Senators Bulkley, Glass and others voiced his alarm about a U. S. billionaire fascist (still unidentified). TIME reported Senator Borah's description of it as "the figment of a disturbed mind...
...opinion, the Senator from Idaho exploded: "I haven't read Professor Dodd's statement. ... I do not propose to descend to the level of reading such irresponsible scandalmongers. I regard him as a disgrace to his country. I have an idea his supposed dictatorship is the figment of a disturbed mind...
...Fate or a Divine Providence or the hand of God. It is the mind of man, struggling against odds sometimes insuperable to find out about the world in which we live and move and have our beings. The Hindenburg was just such a struggle; it was once a mere figment of the imagination of men, men of prophetic soul, dreaming on things to come. Its flight was just as much of a victory as any adventure that enlarges the horizons of men and its fall more clamitous than any academic disaster, since it proved the final round-up of many...