Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James Henry Thomas, chubby-faced, excoriated the Russians for "publishing to the world a lying statement that Ramsay MacDonald, M. P., shammed illness and went to America [TIME, May 30] to escape participating in the discussion of the Trades Union bill." Then, raising his voice, he ejaculated: "I say that such con-duct is damnable, mean and con-temptible...
...must be admitted that there are Spaniards who are one thing in Spain and another across the frontier. But these are feeble-hearted Spaniards, who forget that above political ideas is patriotism, which, born of Spanish glories of the past, should outweigh petty differences. Although it pains me to say it, there are Spaniards who are Spain's worst enemies and who, on leaving Spain, permit foreign influence to make them forget the past glories of the mother country. These weak-hearted, weak-minded, weak-memoried persons are averse to recalling Spain's past, which proves her worthy, and point...
Lodgical Universe. Sir Oliver, onetime (1913-14) president of the Association, had much to say to his colleagues and to the public. He offered his entire private cosmogony, an explanation of the physical universe based upon the inference that there was, in the beginning, and still is, a universal medium, ether, very dense, continuous, all-permeating, boundless, and everywhere in violent motion. Since matter is now known to be pure energy in complicated forms, the origin of matter out of the ether might be accounted for thus: the continuity of the ether was at some time interrupted by "an extremely...
...this new mastery over nature, man has not seemed really to be advancing his own cause. . . . Dare I even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost art of geting together and finding a formula for making the ends meet in the scale of human life...
Many such cavities or bubbles formed, explained Sir Oliver. How some acquired characteristics opposite to others, he could not say, but inferred that there were opposites, the positive and negative particles of that form of energy called electricity. Their high speed made mutual penetration difficult. Instead of destroying one another they agglomerated in clusters (atoms, molecules) masses (star dust, worlds, material universes...