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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mayor, rated to be as smart and faithful a supporter as the Brown Derby could have, touched upon a ticklish subject, in a public speech (to some Roman Catholics) as follows: "It is not so long since I was forced to listen to a tirade of a sort not unfamiliar to you, when a friend from one of the bucolic districts asked me if it were not a fact that all my public acts were dictated from Rome. I said no-I had to be honest with him-they were not, but more's the pity...
Seasoned travelers who remember the Trans-Siberian trip from before the War, could not detect, last week, anything changed or unfamiliar in the following description, released by Cooks, of the journey as it is today...
Nebulium. Certain unfamiliar lines in the spectra of far off nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being...
Espionage. The dread Ogpu (sometimes abbreviated Gpu) or secret police is given its unfamiliar official designation by Mr. Lee as, "The Union State Political Department...
...works shown in Paris in the Salon d'Automne. They are all by contemporary French artists. With possible exceptions like Andre, Denis, d'Espagnat, Vlaminck, there are few names that approach being famous; in fact unless one has followed modern French exhibitions rather closely, the names are almost wholly unfamiliar to persons in this country. This is rather a good thing for it gives us a chance to exercise our powers of discrimination entirely untrammeled by prejudice associated with worldly reputations...