Word: heartly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flattered when Will Durant included her, along with celebrities ranging from Benito Mussolini to Mary Garden, in a sober symposium on Life. (She wrote: "For me, life is interesting, entertaining, happy, if only I can have some activity for the restlessness that is in my heart...
This microvoltmetre must be used with special electrodes. When properly set up and adjusted the apparatus indicates only minute direct electrical currents generated by living creatures, and shuts out the long known alternating currents which physiologists use to determine the condition of the heart, the energy of the biceps, the well-being of nerves...
...Nagged by his wife Martha (Lillian Gish) for his resigned poverty and fired by his employer, the inventor throws the switch of the star-wagon, and is instantly transported to the year 1902, when he met and married Martha. Resolved to rectify his mistakes, he says no to his heart, makes a practical match with a rich girl, amasses a fortune. His wife betrays him, associates force him into dishonest stock manipulations, he longs for the sweet girl Martha, drowns his sorrows in drink. When he cannot stand this second choice life any longer, he remembers his time-machine hidden...
Died. Genaro Estrada, 50, Mexican statesman and diplomat; of a heart attack; in Mexico City. Onetime head of the Mexican Foreign Office, Mexican Minister to Turkey, Ambassador to Spain, head of the Mexican delegation to the League of Nations, Señior Estrada in 1931 promulgated the Estrada Doctrine ("Doctrina Mexicana"). In direct opposition to the Monroe Doctrine, which had been incorporated into the League Covenant, the Estrada Doctrine proclaimed every Latin-American nation's exclusive right to be its own big brother...
...debating at Harvard the significance of such reforms lies in the fact that the Debating Council has recognized two elemental characteristics of human nature; that every man is a debater at heart, but that he is likewise apt to be bound by inertia. It has announced a plan whereby the inexhaustible wealth of government and philosophy section orators may be brought within the scope of organized debating. It has seen in the breasts of many men in the impersonal public speaking courses a burning desire to take part in organized debating. It has realized that it can offer a laboratory...