Word: kind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every evening he is bundled off to early bed by an efficient, uncompromising trained nurse. Recently it has even been noticed that Dr. Stresemann's personal physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute periods in reminding the statesman that he must curb his temper, eschew his favorite fiery oratory, conserve his strength...
Faces of Children. It is the first cinema, and one of the few creations in any medium, that gets childhood across. Because of the memory of his dead mother, a boy of ten cannot get used to how things are when his father marries again. His new mother is kind to him, but she has a little daughter whom he has to quarrel with. The struggle of his loyalty against new conditions becomes a struggle between him and his stepsister. Prose, which is life itself and which can be made out of pictures even better than out of words...
...does seem as if the earth were the victim of a kind of heavenly conspiracy to make its crust crawl. Professor Stetson says that perhaps the stars, those eternal symbols of constancy, may be in the plot, too, allowing their rays to be deflected by an atmospheric tidal wave caused by the moon. Shifts in the axis of the earth, and tides in its crust are other possibilities, the scientists assure us, just like that...
Helium and nitrogen atoms colliding and producing fluorine, the fluorine exploding into hydrogen and a new kind of oxygen...
...unnamed) of the remaining states would furnish materials of some kind...