Word: nones
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agent (No. 979). He had a gun. Others on the U. S. boat exhibited firearms. "Why the hell didn't you stop when we fired?" asked the agent. He inspected the Restless' papers, spent a half-hour up turning cushions, feeling in lockers for liquor. None was found. Mr. Fish was angry. He spoke his mind. From the U. S. boat came a voice: "You're damned lucky we didn't turn the machine gun on you." Later Mr. Fish learned that the patrol boat was part of the U. S. Customs Enforcement Service (not Coast...
...every three gowns that a Parisienne sells in the U. S., she must buy one U. S. gown and try to sell it in France. The uproar, the heaven-piercing cries for justice which would rise from Paris if the U. S. took such a stand may be imagined. None the less the French Government was last week on the point of imposing precisely similar conditions with respect to U. S. films shown in France...
...diagnosis. X-rays can also destroy the tumor, or the fetus. Radium is also therapeutically destructive. Just what effect radium, or X-rays in their various doses have on the growing fetus has been an uncertainty among doctors. Few have experimented in this regard on animals and none, so far as is known, on humans...
...week, when the winner of the annual $1,000 (plus publicity) Pulitzer Prize for the best novel of 1928 was unofficially revealed to be a novel called Victim and Victor, by a man named John Rathbone Oliver. Wise literary prophets had been forecasting winners and raising authorial hopes, but none had mentioned Victim and Victor. It was a literary dark horse blacker than night...
Senator Couzens' establishment of a ten million dollar fund for the betterment of the children of Michigan is not just another philanthropic foundation. For the entire principle and interest is to be spent within twenty-five years and none of the money is to go for scholastic research or for individual aid. The endowment will be used where it will show almost immediate and tangible results. Where others perhaps think for the good of the future in terms of dollars and the study of pure science, the Michigan senator prefers to deal with the human element...