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...Times, and also represent how the author has cut apart the vast layer of propaganda to get at the truth of the foreign situation. "Looking Behind the Censorships" does much more than present the difficulties of the foreign news hawk, it attempts to get at the bottom of the maze of events abroad, and expounds in the process some surprising conclusions which the author has drawn from his vast sources of information...
...eastern end the main floor is entirely laid, but at the other a riveting gang is still working within the basement walls on a maze of scaffolding above murky pools of water on the floor...
...Manhattan apartment Thorndike kept his hens and four monkeys. He invented for his experiments the maze and puzzle box, now standard equipment for psychological work. At 24 Thorndike published his first work, Animal Intelligence. Armchair psychologists, who had not his patience for the laborious pursuit of facts, immediately denounced his conclusions. To them the youngster replied: "What is important is concrete information about particular facts...
...this preposterous maze SEC haled up Trenton Valley's ex-president, a Canadian named Harry Low, who promptly put himself in hot water by admitting that he had himself contracted to buy 45,000 shares of his company's stock at $1, a fact not mentioned in the registration statement. To the Commission's counsel, E. Forrest Tancer and H. Victor Schwimmer, this seemed a willful omission-a plain violation of the Securities Act, punishable by fine or imprisonment. Usual procedure in such cases is for SEC to hand over its material to the Department of Justice...
Standing on an open plot in Manhattan near Madison Avenue and 59th Street in the early 1890s was a mechanical contraption that would have been an inspiration to Cartoonist Rube Goldberg. Snaked around the plot in a vast maze of loops, twists and double turns were several miles of pipe, through which was pumped a grimy mixture of water and pulverized coal. Purpose was to demonstrate the possibilities of pumping coal from the mines, an idea which was pronounced feasible in its day by men like Frick and Carnegie, and won an award at the Chicago World's Fair...