Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joys and terrors of a debonair young man who enters unwittingly into bigamy and continues in it because he can't decide how to get out. The first of the two acts sees him oscillating between Paris and London, the one the home of his first wife, whom be thought drowned, the other the home of his second. There is a good deal of horseplay connected with an attempt to keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little by it. The efforts to make him appear mad are scarcely more subtle...
...position of institutions of higher learning in the life of every modern nation is far different from that which existed a century or so ago. Then, it is true, universities were solely for scholars or possibly teachers. But certainly the thought of extending them to any other profession was not considered. Medicine, law, and the other branches of professional careers were taught by practise. Today, however, it is unquestioned that these fields can only be developed by men who have first of all a firm background of the sciences and technical training which is primarily obtained in universities. In governmental...
When Walter Gibbs bought his land in 1913 he thought he was just going to use it for shooting ducks. But people told him he could easily pay his taxes in muskrat pelts. Mr. Gibbs was pleased to find he could. He invented two traps: one which got the muskrats not only by the leg (which they often gnaw off to escape) but also by the body; another which netted them, captured them alive. Before long he was inventing and manufacturing traps to catch everything from English sparrows to bears. By 1919 he had a large factory in Trainer...
...some $4,746,000 to see the Fair's gaudy structures clustered along the Seine. To reopen them next year is expected to cost another $16,950,000. In the Chamber of Deputies this week there was strong opposition to the idea from outlying provinces which dislike the thought of their trade suffering while Paris gains...
...monarchist in sympathies, Dr. Bruening felt that Germany was at heart an empire. In 1929, when the Nazis resolved on a big upheavel to do away with the radical thought brewing among the classes suffering from the consequences of the inflation, the impression was that Hitler would restore the monarchy. A plebiscite held in 1932 would undoubtedly have resulted in a monarchial restoration Dr. Bruening said. But President von Hindenburg refused to permit a plebiscite on the grounds that the crown should not depend on a vote of the people. At present, he added, there is not much hope...