Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carry the burden of vindicating scientific knowledge and careful study as an approach to everyday professional and industrial tasks. And private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge of one thing in its truest light involves knowing many things, and may retain, as its province likewise, the duty of giving asylum to the speculative mind and a more protecting harbor than even highly experimental industries can give to the scientific mind in its most abstract researches...
Sirs: TIME'S spicy, well written columns are marred by one thing. The magazine is too local. As a newsmagazine it should be more liberal, more cosmopolitan. Since when is Ontario an "American" State,- or Windsor a suburb of Detroit ? Since when is the business of Ontario NATIONAL AFFAIRS of the United States...
While the train waited, King Ferdinand took Premier General Alexander Averescu by the arm and publicly besought him to do everything which would make possible the formation of a "National Coalition Cabinet" strong enough to bulwark Rumania in the event of the sovereign's sudden death. Since the first thing which Premier Averescu would have to do to bring this about would be to resign, his swart face darkened, and some reporters claimed that he did not reply to the King's appeal...
This document, virtually a petition, asked permission to place the Egyptian Army under an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief. Should this be done the office of Sirdar* would be taken from its present British incumbent, Major General Charlton Watson Spinks, or "Spinks Pasha" as Egyptians know him. That such a thing should even be thought of shocked the British Government so deeply that it despatched the battleships and sent a note declaring that the whole affair must be a "misunderstanding." Why should the independent Kingdom of Egypt want an Egyptian Commander-in-Chief, when Spinks Pasha is fulfilling that office, with...
...criticisms from New York. There appears to be a distinct impression that Mr. de Mille has generally improved the original. He has added a great many details to enhance the glory of his film. He has given it what one would expect from him--lavishness. The result is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, according to the blushing advertisements...