Word: idea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also, please stop using "metres." p. 28, TIME, Aug. 29. Under "Cannon, Woman." Remember TIME is not a scientific publication, that this is America, that most Americans have no idea how far "40 metres...
Irving T. Bush, Manhattan industrialist, onetime (1923,24) president of the New York Chamber of Commerce, wrote in Current History for September. "The mandate idea has become so popular that even here in democratic America we are beginning to talk about it, but "if it be applied to Mexico it means that a control of Mexican affairs must be exercised against the will of an established Mexican, government. ... 'A policeman's life is not a happy one.* I believe a League of American Nations, conceived in the right spirit, will do great good. If it means Pan-Americanism...
...blood. . . . Sacco's neck was swelling to a huge inhuman size. . . . The saliva was literally pouring out of his mouth. . . . Try to compare 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit* [the temperature of the death shock] with 100 degrees in the shade when you complain of the heat and you get some idea how cultured and conservative Massachusetts roasts her murderers alive. . . . And how these Bostonians get a dead man out of the chair! . . . Elliott . . . started to put on the electrode and now I observed that Vanzetti was getting nervous. . . . There was a sickening stench of scorched flesh in the abattoir. Vanzetti...
...habit of reporting for work at 7 a. m. But it is as a salesman that he has chiefly succeeded. He sold locomotives in Europe when people thought Europe was too War-poor to pay for anything. He took his pay in oil, bonds. Once he sold an idea to an irate Irishwoman. She was the empress of a Philadelphia slum section he wanted badly to buy up for expansion of the Baldwin works. The lady had refused to sell and move out, and had wrathfully bade her neighbors do likewise. Mr. Vauclain put on an old straw hat, sauntered...
...whole conference was discussed in plenary session "The Unity of Christendom." The Most Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Upsala, Sweden, himself the organizer of a Universal Conference on Life & Work (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925, et seq.) paralleling Bishop Brent's assembly on Faith & Order, reiterated the idea that all sects should be able to regard themselves and each other as chapters of a single Church...