Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been lampooned last summer as a religious incendiary (TIME, Aug. 12). So she revealed in the first of a now-it-can-be-told series of articles for a newspaper syndicate headed by the New York Times. In the same article she discussed, revealed something about the "much-heralded" speech to Methodists, at Springfield, Ohio, which brought the lampooning upon...
...condition of the Southern cotton mill worker is very much better than it was a generation ago when he had no work at all. . . . When they talk about $12 a week, they do not tell you about the free homes, the good country food, water and light for nothing and the palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison...
...knew about the Harrises was that he was a son of Author Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, that he was a newspaperman who was once managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, more recently editor of the Paris Herald; that she was his wife. Columbians did not care to know much more, because the Enquirer-Sun was not much of a newspaper to bother about anyway...
...publisher's agent of the future threatens, or promises, to be not so much the retail bookseller any more, as the literary club with its thousands of book-a-month readers who are generally subscribers-by-the-year. Book-of-the-Month Club, which merely selects and sends books at no great reduction, has the largest number of subscribers. Literary Guild, cheaper, selects and sends as well as does its own binding, has second largest subscription list. Others more or less similar, are the following, supplied by the Publishers' Weekly, publishing trade organ: Paper Books, Limited Editions Club...
...pounds per second. Weight is the force by which the earth attracts a body, and is variable. Mass is a measure of inertia and does not vary. Energy is force multiplied by distance. A body would weigh less on the moon because the mass of the moon is so much less than that of the earth. A body would weigh nothing at infinity...