Word: likings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish your correspondent could have been with me at Maidenhead on the Thames when he wrote TIME'S disgraceful story about "swan upping" (TiME, Aug. 5). I would have boxed his ears, as I should like to box yours...
...When a bar of iron is placed inside a coil through which a current is flowing it becomes magnetized. The bar of iron when magnetized acquires, like the compass needle, poles north and south. When the current reverses, the poles change places-not instantaneously but with a delay. The process of delay is called the Law of Hysteresis...
...crescendo of oices, the officer whirled toward the new gate leading from the Mosque Omar to the lane, shouted a hoarse phrase at the drowsing Arabs. For a moment they stood horror-struck, then fled. Through the gate poured a screaming, howling mass of Arabs, flaunting banners that flapped like big bats in the twilight. Down the lane they roared. Vainly an old beadle tried to halt them, was seized by powerful dark hands, hurled aside. Two Jews bowed in prayer at the altar were savagely beaten. In a frenzy of plunder the Moslems burned prayer books and psalters, smashed...
...sometimes labelled Morgan stocks, yet no one save the uncommunicative partners at 23 Wall St. really knows exactly what companies have Morgan connections, or how much stock interest, if any, J. P. Morgan Co. holds in them. Speculators eager to know how much the name of Morgan is like the touch of Midas, have spent much time calculating what profit Morgan stocks have shown...
...Hanna, Jr., grandson of Mark Hanna) picked up his jangling telephone, heard a voice say: "This is Col. Lindbergh speaking." Newsman Spaeth was too surprised to hang up. He gasped, stammered, mumbled, found his wits, began to talk. As nearly as he could remember it later, the conversation ran like this...