Word: things
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the limit [10,000 tons] was put too high for real economy. Other countries set about designing and authorizing the building of a number of these large cruisers, with the result that instead of the maximum [in size] they become standard. We naturally had to do the same thing. But it was not until 1924, two or three years after the Washington Conference, that any of these cruisers were laid down in this country. That was done by the Socialist [British Labor] Government, and was the only creditable performance of an otherwise objectionable Government...
...often of the same strain as the people to whom they are accredited. For example, the U. S. Minister to Norway is Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn., and husband of onetime Miss Ingeborg Odegaard of Norseland, Minn. Last week another instance of this sort of thing strikingly appeared in a report of the U. S. Consul-General at Paris, Mr. Alphonse Gaulin, a one-time Mayor of Woonsocket, R. I., where live many French-Canadians...
...trickster, if any, was Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin, who banished Trotsky a year ago for the crime of organizing a political opposition. Stalin brooks no opposition. Last week he muzzled correspondents in Moscow with a censorship so drastic that the only thing really known about Trotsky was that he had left Alma Alta...
Architects can perhaps perform the miracle of making steel stands a thing of beauty, harmonizing with the present concrete stadium. But at this moment it looks as if all that could be accomplished would be the perpetuation of an ugliness which may have been excusable in temporary wooden stands because they were known to be a makeshift...
Robots exists for purposes utilitarian; they turn switches, open doors, and report accomplishment of necessary duties; but always because they are obliged to. The essence of the robot lies in its being compelled to do things. His very automatonism implies inevitability and consequent compulsion. How blind are they, therefore who would link a robot with the masterful beau geste which fills an entire blue book for the simple run of the thing. Only humanity in its most sparkling moments could produce so shining an example of the spirit "pour ie sport...