Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interest of Germans in last week's general election (see above) was scarcely keener than their anxious curiosity about the functions of the two kidneys of Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, now generally considered the ablest statesman of Republican Germany...
...this propaganda birth control literature and nude pictures. Dr. Straton asked Atheist Smith to stop mailing him such things. When Mr. Smith failed to do so, Dr. Straton haled him into court. Once before the judges, Atheist Smith sought to make it appear that he had been trying to interest Preacher Straton in atheism, because he "wanted to convert the leader of the opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman to send an atheist Christian propaganda. After...
...hoping to uncover secrets of man's origin. This is the fourth expedition of its kind. The last one, 1923, returned with the fossilized eggs of the dinosaur, aged some ten million years. The present expedition will collect lower animal fossils when found under foot, but the main interest will centre on recent prehuman ancestors not older than three million years...
Last week he stated, with justifiable complacency: "Shareholders of the White Star Line, who now number about 15,000, will have observed with interest and satisfaction that the results for the past year not only confirmed my forecast but showed it was more than justified. . . . After providing for the depreciation of the fleet and paying the dividend on the preference _ [preferred] shares, we recommend a dividend of 6% on ordinary [common] shares and balances carried foreward...
Last February he also gave an interest in FBO Pictures Corp. to Keith-Albee-Orpheum (K. A. O.), largest amusement enterprise in the world. K. A. O. own 203 theatres, including the Hippodrome, Manhattan, and last year made nearly...