Word: pointedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Down in Natchitoches, La., reputed third oldest city in the U. S.** Negroes lolled in the park and pointed to a little hillock. "Are yoh a good niggah, Sam?" asked one. "I sure am. What make yoh ask silly questions, boy?" said Sam. "Den, yoh goin' to have a...
Herbert ("Dutch") Leonard, one-time Detroit baseball player, recently gave or sold certain letters to Byron Bancroft Johnson, president of the American League and to Judge Landis, baseball commissioner. Last week the letters were published; scandal flared. It seems, from Leonard's "grudge" testimony and from the letters, that...
Professor Birkhoff won the honor for his Vice-Presidential address before the mathematics section of the Association, entitled "A Mathematical Critique of Some Physical Theories." With the announcement of the award, Professor Birkhoff sent a telegraphic explanation of his paper from Cambridge. Reviewing various physical theories, it pointed out some...
Other gentlemen of the profession expressed a moderate skepticism, They pointed out that narcosan was not a new composition. A Hungarian biochemist, Alexander S. Horoyitz, invented it years ago in Cincinnati, tried some experiments on addicts in the local jail, patented his solution. In 1921 it was rejected by the...
Next the disparity amounting to antithesis between Mexican and U. S. laws affecting religious liberty was ably pointed out.†