Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most extraordinary thing which has happened to him since he landed in Paris. An Amarillo, Tex., newspaper editor, one Gene Howe, son of famed Atchison (Kan.) Daily Globe's Ed Howe, had called Charles A. Lindbergh "swell-headed." Lindbergh said: ". . . if I have the swelled-head my hatter has not noticed...
...work was written on a hot summer afternoon in 1862 to amuse a couple of little girls. Today in Harvard it is used, along with "Just So Stories," to illustrate philosophy lectures. Quotations from it head the chapter in a textbook of economic theory. The Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat are co-immortal with pious Aeneas and Tom Jones...
...third the size of any of the microscope-aided eye had ever seen). The short-waved ultraviolet ray will some day be made to carry images of bodies one 500-thousandths of an inch and smaller, by making the photographs in a vacuum.? Mr. J. E. Barnard, hatter-scientist of Jermyn St., London...
...this extraordinary gathering awaited was the distribution of the latest issue of a medical journal, the Lancet. Previous announcements (TIME, July 20), had informed them that in that journal would appear articles by Dr. W. E. Gye, a one-time ticket agent, by Mr. J. E. Barnard, a prosperous hatter, describing their attempts to isolate the cancer germ. Efforts to obtain advance copies of this gazette by judicious bribing of printers, proofreaders, carriers, had failed. The crowd waited. At 5:30 in the afternoon, the Lancet was issued...
...September, 1920, this mad-hatter financing was brought to an end by a law which fixed the fiduciary note circulation at 41,000,000,000 francs. Prices, taking the index figure of 100 for 1914, were 506 in 1920; by the middle of 1922, they were 332, but by the end of last year they had reached the apex figure...