Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This Thing Called Love (Path...
...again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge of electricity, as it shoots from the cathode of an X-ray tube or from the filament of a radio tube engraves its path on metal...
Edward Nash Hurley* of Chicago, wartime chairman of U. S. Shipping Board, in a letter to Georges Theunis of Belgium. President of International Chamber of Commerce, pointed the path to everlasting peace. Said he: "If the leaders of the great industries which own, control, transport, refine and fabricate the 'key commodities' would not sell them to any actual or prospective belligerent, politicians would hesitate before precipitating wars. . . . There are two or three dozen men in the world today who could meet and form a gentleman's agreement." Some of the men and commodities he then mentioned...
...young Giacomo was clever, and when the opportunity of a priestly career fell in his way he seized it, extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi...
...anything but heroic. . . ." said Dr. Curtius at last with quiet scorn. Then, rising to his climax he cried: "Ach! Heroic was the life and influence of Dr. Stresemann! He strove, with death in the balance. . . . Deliberately spent his last ounce of strength to advance his principles on a path which he recognized as right! ... It is for the dear Fatherland to wisely follow...