Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is the most tremendous satire that I have ever come upon; it is stupendous. One would expect that Swift had returned to life for a brief moment, or at least Lewis Carroll (and, of course, Alice with him). It may have been a common jokesmith, but the glory still remains. WM. K. LOMASON University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich...
...most people, however accustomed they have become to seeing streets thronged with such swift and glittering vehicles, the automobile still seems, in a somewhat profound sense, new. It is hard for them to realize that, measured against a man's span of life rather than against the centuries during which men moved by more awkward contrivances, automobiles have existed for a long time. Yet few of the men who built the first automobiles are still alive; Maxwell, Haynes, the Dodge Brothers-these were among the most important and all of them are dead. Last week Death, in his quick...
...Diederich was born in Hungary in 1884. His sculpture and iron work have a modernistic tone, and the long, slim lines of his figures convey admirably the idea of swift motion inherent in most of his works. His favorite subjects are taken from out-of-doors life especially of polo and hunting scenes, in which his speeding figures seem fairly to fly over the ground...
Like all its inhabitants and all its swift and luminous companions, this earth must discover an eventual disaster. How the disaster will arrive, and when, is a matter for astronomers to ponder. Dr. James Hopwood Jeans, famed British astronomer, Secretary of the Royal Society, pondered; last week, in London, he spoke sadly of the dwindling universe. Said...
Lowden chose, in preference to directing the affairs of the Navy, to retire to his farm. It was a bona fide farm. He had not bought it in the first swift decline of farm prosperity with a shrewd eye to the political advantages which might accrue from being identified with a lively issue. He had bought his farm twenty-one years before this time--in 1899 and some years before his interest had ever turned to politics. Gradually the farm had grown until in 1920 it comprised more than a thousand acres. The job of reorganizing it and making...