Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Advancement of Science used false and chicane arguments to counterblast the anti-evolutionists at Nashville. As you reported in your Jan. issue, the association's president, Dr. Arthur Amos Noyes of Pasadena Calif., said: ". . . the fact that evolution has been going on and that many animal types have gone through definite stages of development can only be doubted by an individual who, like an ostrich, buries his head in the sand out of a vague dread that he may see something shocking...
Trip. Thirty years ago, the Western Hemisphere became the U. S. That it might not remain so, even with Spain gone and Britain acquiescent, was perceived by the U. S. statesman who secured the Panama Canal. That the Panama Canal was a business as well as a Naval channel was perceived by the man who founded Florida's perpetual youth?Henry M. Flagler. On his way to Havana, President Coolidge would not fail to be impressed by the Flagler monuments...
...awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago. Mr. Insull, held in contempt of the Senate last year for refusing to tell who received $40,000 of the $237,925 he passed out for the 1926 primary campaign, testified that the $40,000 had gone equally to two local campaigners in Cook County, not to Frank L. Smith. Asked why he subsidized politics, Mr. Insull said, "I like the game." The Committee continued pondering "the game...
...night last week, Speaker Nicholas Longworth of the U. S. House seized his home telephone and spoke excitedly to policemen, firemen. According to report his words were: "Something terrible is happening in my cellar! The furnace has gone flooey! It's going to explode!'' Policemen lumbered. Firemen dashed. In the Longworth furnace, they discovered a broken water coil, ripped it out. Mrs. Longworth, "fourth lady of the land" (see p. 7), served coffee & perfectos...
...again, we argue that the modern youth is no worse than the youth of a century or half a century ago. From Bill's report, it would seem that the modern so-called flaming youth keeps the flames under control better than the modern youth of days gone by. Purdue Exponent...