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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who follow the progress of modern invention eagerly will find here what architectural problems lie behind discovery and scientific progress. These problems are considered in the light of the mental rather than the historical developments of the last three centuries. The modification of the old concepts of an order in nature, matter, space, time, continuity, interaction, induction, and atomism by the newer ones of the molecular theory, the quantum theory and relativity to form a new, harmonious system, is, in the last analysis, the main theme of this cosmology...
THEODORE Francis Powys is a highly skilled master of the craft of writing English prose. He inspires even a reviewer to aspire to the gentle knack of turning words askew so that their edges sparkle. In the tradition of the English men-of-letters who find a delicate amusement in the sophisticated subletry of perverse ideas, the author of these fables plays a part, but not without just rooting himself securely in the healthy soil of life. Thus he effects a nice refinement of words and ideas with all the vigor of the primitive. This makes him very chic indeed...
...include a humorous moving picture, an exhibition by a magician, and refreshments. A large number of presents have been prepared for the young guests. Entertainments of a more serious nature will be offered at Phillips Brooks House during the vacation for the benefit of students of the University who find it impossible to go home for the holidays. Included among these will be the annual Christmas night reception...
...brave enough for real suicide) so that she could marry a devoted, comfortable suitor. When Fedya's ruse was discovered years later and he learned that, depending on the courts, he had either to remarry his wife or be exiled with her to Siberia for bigamy, he did find the courage to shoot himself...
When a newspaper forages through its news calendar, seizes whatever news it can find or rehash, throws an edition into print and out upon the streets ahead of competitors, that edition is a "bulldog" edition. Chicago's Herald & Examiner ("Herex") publishes a "bulldog" edition on Sunday afternoons. Last week this edition carried a story about one Rocco Maggio, badman. "Herex" said Maggio would stand trial next day on a statutory (sex) offense against a 14-year-old girl whom he had since married...