Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Politics. The disconcerting part of Mr. Mellon's proposal was that politicians had generally come to the conclusion that a soldier bonus was the most popular thing that could be offered the country in a "Presidential" year. Many of them had pledged themselves irretrievably to the bonus, and it was an open secret that several had done so disapproving the bonus but regarding it as a political necessity...
Cyrus E. Woods, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, who recently arrived in San Francisco from Tokyo, said of the Japanese during the earthquake: "In the midst of the horrors the thing that impressed me most was the unfailing courtesy of the Japanese people, who still considered their guests first. The best illustration of this was the first night in the outskirts of Tokyo, where we herded on the lawn of a nobleman's house. No one knew who we were, but those wonderful people refused to allow any of us to sleep on the grass without some sort...
...newest experiments, not yet completed, are on white mice. The rodents were trained to run to their feeding place at the sound of an electric bell. It took 300 repetitions of the feeding-ringing combination to make the mice run at the sound of the bell. The same thing was tried on the offspring of the original mice, and they learned the connection after only 100 repetitions. The third generation absorbed the theory after 30 lessons, the fourth required 10 repetitions and the fifth but five. The sixth generation will be tested after Dr. Pavloff's return...
...With currency values ever decreasing in this financial chaos, the one thing you must not do, in Germany, of course, is to save your money. It is for that reason that people are so eager to draw their marks out of the banks and spend them before their value has decreased any further. Germany is moved by a feverish activity of spending, which is often misinterpreted as prosperity by those who do not understand the true conditions...
...blames the whole thing on the pretty wife who has succumbed to the diverting futility of doing nothing. He has surrounded her with a group of exceedingly rarefied representatives of London's smart society. He has attached her to a husband who disapproves. His-the husband's- conversation is a trifle dull and his necktie lacks a certain trim orthodoxy. They could hardly be expected...