Word: rather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover last week caused the Senate to bark, if not bite. Because he had named Albert L. Watson a U. S. District Judge in Pennsylvania, President Hoover was charged with heeding the demands of William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania R. R. president, Pennsylvania's Republican National Committeeman, rather than his own Attorney-General, and of treating the G. O. P. North, better than the G. O. P., South. Likewise abuse was heaped upon the President's appointment of Richard Joseph Hopkins as a U. S. Judge in Kansas, charged with accepting speaking fees from the Anti-Saloon League...
...general plan calls for 19 U. S. systems and two supplementary systems composed of Canadian lines entering the country. It implies a managerial unification of systems as well as financial consolidation. The Commission's prime principle was to maintain competition between systems rather than between individual roads. In each system were grouped many a short line, controlled tributary and leased feeder...
...BORN FEB 1 1909 ATTENDED PROFESSIONAL CHILDREN'S SCHOOL WHEN YOUNG SENT TO BENNETTS BECAUSE SOME KIND WEALTHY LADIES THOUGHT I NEEDED FRESH AIR LIKE TO STUDY GREATEST AMBITION TO LIVE IN ITALY IN A COLD GARRET WRITE BAD VERSE AND DRINK YELLOW WINE WHEN I'M OLD WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM...
...there are no primitive struggles of man and woman, man and elements, in the Jack London tradition. Of course there is a storm, but it is not the shipwrecking kind; and on shore, there is a native chief who falls in love with Miss Cooper, but he is practical rather than masterful, and when his proposition of a palm-studded island for her, and a pig for every man of the crew, is rejected, he is gentlemanly enough to withdraw. In fact, there is a generally twentieth-century atmosphere about the book that precludes the possibilities of stirring adventure...
Those who follow the progress of modern invention eagerly will find here what architectural problems lie behind discovery and scientific progress. These problems are considered in the light of the mental rather than the historical developments of the last three centuries. The modification of the old concepts of an order in nature, matter, space, time, continuity, interaction, induction, and atomism by the newer ones of the molecular theory, the quantum theory and relativity to form a new, harmonious system, is, in the last analysis, the main theme of this cosmology...