Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inrush of foreign cars was anticipated by the U. S. motor industry in the wake of such a tariff change, which, many thought, would produce a favorable psychological effect abroad, might even relax tariff barriers now raised against U. S. motor exports. But what many an independent motorman feared was that big U. S. concerns-Ford and General Motors -already equipped with factories abroad, would produce cars by cheap labor for shipment back to the U. S. duty free to undersell the U. S. market. Henry Ford's fabrication of tractors in Ireland with the privilege of bringing them...
...Europe, last week paid a surprise visit to the League of Nations at Geneva. He caused a mild panic among the staid members of the Secretariat. Little used to entertaining pompous monarchs who travel as does Egypt's Fuad with a small army of retainers, Secretariat members thought only in the nick of time to provide a throne for the dusky, red-fezzed potentate. Acting Secretary General J. A. M. C. Avenol, flustered in the absence of his chief, suave, assured Sir Eric Drummond, madly canvassed Geneva's second-hand shops until he found a massive chair heavy...
...ticket-taker, Vincent Pecha was well thought of in his own country. To protest his arrest, Czechoslovak officials halted the Budapest-Kassa train service. Not to be outdone, Hungarian vacationists left Czechoslovak resorts, cancelled reservations at Tatra and Karlsbad, prepared to drink their August sulphur water in Germany instead. Prague newspapers cried for further reprisals to obtain the release of Pecha, talked headily of war. Hungarian authorities, convinced of Pecha's guilt, did nothing but hold their prisoner, prepared...
Because the living heart is a generator of electricity, two heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where...
...course, as everyone knows, Emerson did not mention mousetraps in his essay; but the idea that the man who made the best product would attract the most customers was his. It was the Chicago Tribune, which first used mouse-trap in parodying the Emerson thought...