Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombs. A captive balloon from which Japanese observers were directing artillery fire was attacked from the air and shot down in flames. This week Japanese operations against the Hindenburg Line continued with slow, progressive success, but Generalissimo Chiang's troops had begun offering improved resistance, due observers thought to "invigorated" bombing...
...players realized they might have to deal with a green suit in their waking moments. From Vienna, via London, had come a new 65-card, five-suit bridge deck,* the added 13-card suit dubbed "royals" and embossed with a green emblem patterned after Britain's Imperial Crown. Thought up one summer night last year by Austrian Gamester Walther Marseille, an ascetic-looking Ph.D. who has trouble getting to sleep, five-suit or super-bridge, got its real impetus at the British Industries Fair last week, when the King & Queen bought two decks while the Duke of Kent looked...
...which $50 in prizes will be awarded to readers culling and commenting upon the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in the press during March. Father Toomey's observations on the scope of the contest: "Something may not seem to be anti-Catholic at all until one bestows thought upon it. For example, consider the Ladies' Home Joitrnal's birth control propaganda. . . . The bias may be achieved by playing up the anti-Catholic side, playing down the Catholic side ... or by means of half truths, interpretations, implications and other tricks of the propagandists. It is anti-Catholic...
...naked and dripping, shouting "Eureka, eureka!" He had just discovered an important physical principle. In 1937 A.D., a German-Jewish mathematician named Samuel Isaac Krieger, who was taking a mineral bath near Buffalo, N. Y., suddenly leaped out, rushed naked into the adjoining room, began to scribble figures. He thought he had discovered something too: a solution to the equation given in Fermat's last theorem...
Forty-eight years ago March 1, Isaac Kauffman Funk and Adam Willis Wagnalls, both Lutheran pastors, brought out the Literary Digest, "a repository of contemporaneous thought and research as presented in the periodical literature of the world." Such a review, thought Partners Funk & Wagnalls, would be especially handy for theologians and educators. The Literary Digest amended its formula in 1905 to include newspaper comment on news more mundane than "thought and research." In ten years its circulation stepped...