Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remarks on Mathematician Albert Einstein. Two points he made: 1) that all the talk about Einstein being "incomprehensible" is bosh, so far as mathematicians are concerned; 2) that there is as yet no final Einstein Theory−the document published last January is but part of a chain of thought; 3) Einstein has already noted deficiencies in his January work, modified it and progressed to further conclusions...
Forty-eight years ago a baby was born blind in Montgomery, Ala. She grew up, married a man named Wagoner, bore a son whom she could touch but never see. Lately, ill, she was taken to the charity hospital at Colfax, La. The doctors told her they thought they might, even now, operate and make...
Almost 40 years ago Bridge Builder Gustav Lindenthal strolled along the east bank of the Hudson, looked across the river to the Weehawken side. He could see blue sky and grey water and green trees, but his thoughts were not on the works of nature but on the works of man. Why not (thought he) build a bridge across the river? It was seven years since Engineer Roebling had finished bridging the East River with his famed Brooklyn Bridge. Why should not the Hudson be spanned as well? So Engineer Lindenthal thought of two high towers with long chains sweeping...
Harvard supporters thought this a lucky accident whereby the Crimson narsmen would gain the moral advantage of about a length's lead. It turned out very much the opposite, however, for Behrman brought his crew together admirably, and, raising the stroke tow or three points, again restored a driving rythm to his shell which made it regain the lost territory and go forging past the two Cambridge crews...
...when a few days ago Eva LeGallienne, famed director of the New York Civic Repertory, figuratively tweaked the beard of the Admiral of the Boston Navy Yard. Although the Admiral is a willing sponsor of organizations charitable and organizations artistic, his patriotism made him blanch with horror at the thought of including within the sphere of art, that which the artist confessed to be Communistic...