Word: zeno
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know your early Greek philosophy," said the Hatter pompously. "Zeno proved that the Tortoise would easily win. For while Achilles was traversing the distance from his starting point to the starting point of the Tortoise, the Tortoise would advance to another point; and this procedure would go on ad infinitum...
...constant party struggles, Tsankoff has for some time been urging the formation of a non-party government and a corporative parliament. The results are, of course, unpredictable, but the history of the dictatorships in Greece and Yugoslavia makes it seem unlikely that the Bulgarian experiment will be immediately successful. ZENO...
...ribald advice of brother officers flew about the head of lean, lugubrious Lieut.-Commander Zeno W. Wicks, U. S. N. resigned, as he contemplated the habits of pigeons in Akron last week. The birds were to be used this week in the christening ceremonies of the Navy's huge new dirigible Akron, of which Commander Wicks is construction superintendent. It was his hope that the pigeons would flutter gaily out through the orange-peel doors of the dock and streak for home when Mrs. Herbert Hoover set them free. Hence the suggestions of the Akron's officers...
...Emery Rosendahl. An orchestra of 500 high-school pupils was to render "The Star Spangled Banner" and, as the last note whispered through the cavernous dock, Mrs. Hoover would yank the ribbon, opening the little hatch, tumbling out Frank Eisentrout's 48 astonished pigeons. Then it would be Zeno Wicks's moment to give the signal "up ship!" The workmen would slack off the mooring tackle and up would go the Akron about five feet clear of her metal supports, to hover for a few moments until another signal brought her down again...
...hero, Schmitz was a Trieste businessman-millionaire head of a shipping firm-who wrote in his spare time. In 1912 he met Author James Joyce, who is said to have encouraged him to write this book, which he did when the War suspended his business. When Confessions of Zeno appeared (1923) it had an immediate succes d'estime throughout Europe. In 1928 Schmitz, aged 67, was killed in a motor accident in Italy. Other books: Una Vita, Senilita...