Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier engaged in a personal duel of words with the president of the Senate Finance Committee, Joseph Caillaux. Blum was trying to get authorization to borrow another $270,000.000 from the Bank of France to keep the country going for three and a half months, but the Senate thought that was giving the Premier too much rope, hauled him down to $150,000,000 hoping he would resign in a huff, but instead the Premier took what he could get. "Watch out," angry Blum told irate Caillaux, "lest in manifesting prejudice against our Government and distrust...
...decorum ... he will be moved into the main office as an assistant something or other to one of the 978 vice presidents. . . . Bless those others on these seas and give them better, faster ships, and in the generations to come give us honest shipowners who will give a thought to the man. ... I cast the bottle containing this into the bosom of the cruelest of mistresses...
...budget was the $25 a day paid for several weeks to cafe society's No. 1 hitchhiker, "Prince" Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry Gerguson). Actor Gravet got his first Hollywood job (The King and the Chorus Girl) year and a half ago because Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy thought he resembled Edward VIII. Prince Mike got his because there is no one Hollywood appreciates more than a persistent pretender...
...ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum because they try not to paraphrase mathematical procedure, but to follow trains of physical thought, trace the origins from which they sprang, show the ends to which they lead...
Evolution. In tracing the roots of modern physics, the authors found il necessary to go back to Galileo and Newton, and even to mention Aristotle. The great Greek philosopher, whose shadow dominated scholastic thought in Medieval Europe, declared that a continuous push had to be exerted on a body to keep it in motion. Galileo, who shocked cloistered thinkers by making uncouth experiments, concluded that this was not so-that if a moving body was not acted upon by any forces it would continue in uniform motion indefinitely. This was one of the laws formulated by Newton a generation later...