Word: finality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week to the executive office lobby went Clark Brown of Climax, Mich. He, too, had a manner and for three hours sat at a table scribbling a message to the President. He went away to return again at noon, insistent upon putting in the Hoover hand his message?"The Final Edict of Heaven and Earth." When he was stopped, he became violent, lost his manner, tussled until bodyguards overpowered and hospitalized him. Hoover bodyguards are now on their toes, manner or no manner...
...crop production of the last five years as an average. When production swelled too much, debenture payments would shrink. Many a Senator was quick to point out that the exportable crop surplus would have to double before debenture payments started down. The adoption of this Norris amendment postponed the final showdown of strength...
...Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains along the U. S. border. Without the need of striking a final blow, bull-necked General and War Minister Calles occupied Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora...
...Norbert Wiener, mathematician of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, last week published in the Technology Review some remarks on Mathematician Albert Einstein. Two points he made: 1) that all the talk about Einstein being "incomprehensible" is bosh, so far as mathematicians are concerned; 2) that there is as yet no final Einstein Theory−the document published last January is but part of a chain of thought; 3) Einstein has already noted deficiencies in his January work, modified it and progressed to further conclusions...
...best. The first, "The Cat That Lived at the Ritz," is a shrewd and rather cruel story of an American spinster whose corpse, lying in the Paris Ritz, is robbed by her fake-duchess friend and guarded by her lifelong enemy, "the cat that lived at the Ritz." The final tale, "The Apothecary," is a grim parable of the vulgar and aging rich who gather around them impoverished Parisians with cheap titles and cheaper morals. In a "quaint" apartment over an apothecary's shop in the Faubourg St. Germain, a noisy female parasite gives a dinner to consolidate...