Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Calthrop, a Roxbury, Mass, clergyman who found charm in other things besides divine philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...
Osservatore Romano, semi-official news-organ of Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers. In sum, these gems of Nazi thought extolled the Nordic races over the Mediterranean, and Osservatore Romano even found a Nazi press crack that Italians ought to have no difficulty colonizing in Africa "because the difference between them and Africans is not very great...
Next day SEC finally found someone who had thought it best to warn the Exchange of Richard Whitney's condition- none other than his lawyer, Randolph Mason. Fortified with written permission from Richard Whitney in Sing Sing to divulge anything relating to the case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very...
...Frankly my inference from the reference to Greer, which was a case of which I had heard-if you ask me what I thought, it was that he knew of the events of November in the same sense that...
...Greek 12 one the history of Classical Greek literature are in their third generation, having passed more or less unchanged from Goodwin to Smyth to Jackson, is generally held and supinely accepted. Whether this is literally so or not, the attitude indicated shows the abject respect for established thought and the consequent stultification which now paralyzes the department. Surely Goodwin has not had the last word to say on this subject, and the class receives from its lecturer a shop-worn tradition instead of an active attempt to forge valuations and conceptions in contemporary terms...