Word: originated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world who will agree with the latter statement, and that there is no Irishman in Ireland who will agree with the former. In the first place, it might interest you to know that in the Irish Free State 95% of the whiskey sold is of Irish Free State origin. The Scotch that is sold there is sold mainly on account of its being cheaper in price. So far as northern Ireland is concerned, the proportionate amount of Scotch consumed is admittedly greater than in southern Ireland, but since this is the smaller section of Ireland, and since even there...
...Arthur Stanley Eddington. The speed of light is perhaps the most fundamental of all the constants of nature. -Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. Speed-of-light . . . that most fundamental constant.-Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. In a universe torn to metaphysical shreds by conflicting theories as to its nature and origin, with the calm old laws of cause &; effect pushed aside by principles of indeterminance and inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light has remained a faithful standby. Ready to doubt almost everything else, 20th Century scientists have...
...newspaperman, but are wrong in your other assertions. I first heard of the Berlin announcement you mentioned when reporters of New York newspapers asked me about it a few days ago. I told them that I knew nothing about it. I am still waiting for an explanation of the origin of so silly a yarn...
...earliest Harvard graduate who has published a book during these six months is J. Laurence Laughlin '73, who has written "The Federal Reserve Act, Its Origin and Problems." The latest graduate to have published a work is Leo Waltzkin '33, who has written "The Witch of Wych Street...
...Reinhold Krause in a meeting at the Berlin Sport Palace boomed out his now famous four points: one, that all Jews be excluded from the Church; two, that ghetto parishes be instituted for the ostracized; three, that the Old Testament be thrown out because of its obviously Hebraic origin and additionally because it is "a collection of tales by cattle dealers and pimps"; fourth, that all traces of the doctrine of humility should be deleted from the New Testament. This program as it was bellowed to the enthusiastic audience was adopted almost unanimously by the delegates convened, and will undoubtedly...