Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that transcendental moment when the knots get intricate enough to "materialize" as atoms that heat begins to show in them. Conversely, when all heat has been driven from a substance, as Professor Keesom almost did last week, it may be that "matter" will explode into those universal waves which man at present can call only "nothingness." What the violence of such an explosion might be, no man can guess but experimenter Keesom may yet find...
...small town and county and state news there sometimes comes a chance to champion a cause, to cry a crime, to excite a people, usually a sluggish, smalltownish people. Such a chance came less than a month ago to "the youngest newspaper staff in the country" (not a man over 32)-the staff of the Cherokee Times of Gaffney, a hilltown on the northern edge of South Carolina with a population of 10,000 (including Negroes...
...became a monthly with a program devoted to esoteric odds and ends, good printing, and giving a chance to rare or unknown authors whom Adviser Scofield considered worth while. Some of the Dial's feats and features were: D. H. Lawrence's long short-story, "The Man Who Loved Islands," Arthur Symon's obituary estimate of Thomas Hardy; the first pages of Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West": The last words of Anatole France; new verse by Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, e. e. ("lower case") cummings; contributions from George Saintsbury, Maxim Gorky, Thomas Mann...
...Story. In 1619 a Dutch ship named the Full Moon entered Saldanha Bay, Africa, for water. The old King of the Herreros went to the shore, though he was sick. To the King the Captain offered white man's medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...
...when he was a man, in the '80s Harry Dean bought the schooner Pedro Gorino in Norway. For a while he traded, making money, saving it. Then one day he met a certain Portuguese official and was surprised to hear him say, after a little palaver: "I am offering you the vast territory of Portuguese East Africa including the city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons...