Word: similarly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting to note the strange case of Viscount Grey v. Baldwin's late Pact (as well-recorded in TIME, Nov. 19). There was a time when the Viscount (then Sir Edward and Foreign Sec't.) was himself a defendant in a similar action...
...precisely similar way national Prohibition is the silk hat of the American people. It ensures our respectability and has never so far interfered with the desired consumption of alcohol. We are psychologically not a realistic people, but on the contrary a naively idealistic folk...
...intent, secretive, yet futile look on their faces. They were diamond hunters. Every day they waded Indiana's creeks and panned the gravel left there long ago by glaciers. Frequently they found grains of gold; rarely, yet often enough to stir hope, they found a small diamond. Because similar diamonds have been found in Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin, in the terminal moraines of old glaciers, geologists figure that they were scuffed out of a parent field somewhere south or southwest of James Bay, the teat-like extension of Hudson Bay. That field has not yet been located...
...Situation. Businessmen in general are cagey about new ideas. Twenty-five years ago they squinted dubiously at advertising. Advertising men pugnaciously proved their utility. Now he is a stupid salesman who does not use advertising. To teach a similar lesson scientists are using similar utilitarian appeals. Rarely does a researcher give a talk without a lateral exposition on how useful to business his discovery can be made...
...Privy Councillor *Cat-killer von Opel received 600 letters. Most of them expressed the hope that he, von Opel, would meet a precisely similar fate...