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...valedictory address Karl Taylor Compton gave a discourse on "The Electron: Its Intellectual and Social Significance" in which, as a lesson in the ultimate value of research in pure science, he pointed out that the invisible electron, once a figment in the mind of physics and later the plaything of a few pioneers, is now the ubiquitous slave of mankind...
When eager Baltimoreans showed up at No. 14 East Hamilton Street for their copies of Along the Riviera, they found that no such publishing firm existed, soon learned that the book was no chronique scandaleuse of Baltimore's most famed ex-resident, but only a figment in the mind of an eccentric printer. With his small press it is Louis MacKenzie Turner's hobby to set up and print the title pages of imaginary books, which he then distributes as a genial hoax around Baltimore...
Rumors that he was planning to campaign for election as a U. S. Representative from Connecticut, said James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney in Manhattan, "are a figment of fiction, for I really have no political aspiration. The only cause I'm taking up is woman suffrage. I mean woman suffrage in a broader scope than is allowed by law. I mean whether they should be allowed to sip cocktails at the bar in the Marguery, at Pierre's, at the Park Lane and the Waldorf-Astoria...
...fifteen cents a week for those paying for all their meals, or else that one or two student waiters would lose their jobs. And as for the statement that the Union is one great big, happy family, where members merely share their breakfasts, this is the most preposterous figment of the imagination it has ever been my good fortune to come upon. Charles Ernst Sewer...
...last March to change bank deposits into currency. Banks can be closed to conserve deposits, but there is no known control for paper panic. Prices soar beyond reason and the higher they go the more eager are people to spend before prices go still higher. Currency swiftly becomes a figment of a paper imagination. Owners of bonds, of bank deposits, of life insurance policies, of pensions find the value of their holdings reduced to microscopic size. Wages and salaries cannot keep pace with rising prices. The quantity of goods sold drops to less & less in spite of every...