Word: begining
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Last week a vital, thick-set man with hair ruffled by nervous fingers, lectured in German and chalked hieroglyphics on a lecture room blackboard at University College, Nottingham, England. The Nottingham faculty and many a distinguished guest sat and listened intently, though only three of them could begin to comprehend the discourse. When the man finished they asked him to autograph the blackboard. He complied. Then the wise men of Nottingham had the blackboard varnished and stored away as a memento. The name scrawled on it is Albert Einstein...
WHEN the rest of the world was going through the throes of Renaissance revivals in architecture America was still building huts along decidedly medieval lines. With a few possible exceptions it is not until the twentieth century that we begin to take the lead, but after all, with a handicap of several hundred years, are we to blame? In the earlier days the crudest substitutes had to serve for what we consider now basic necessities. Is it then any wonder that the artistic efforts of our colonial ancestors in the field of prints were somewhat crude? This primitive handling which...
...this theory last week Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York, red-hot anti-Red, was appointed chairman of a Congressional committee of five who will begin the 1930 Red hunt by calling three star witnesses: 1) Attorney-General Mitchell for the Department of Justice; 2) Secretary of Labor Davis for informaton about Red immigrants; 3) Third Vice President Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor...
With characteristic Carter thoroughness he will drill a great circle of test holes about the cemetery, gradually work toward the centre. If the drills bring up interesting material, excavations will begin...
...Bourne, having grown into the private soldier's ways of life and feelings about officers, agrees against his will would rather stay a private. He comes through another battle unharmed. But his chum Shem is wounded, Martlow killed. A few days before he is due to leave to begin his officer's training. Bourne is practically ordered to volunteer for a trench raid into the German front lines The raid is successful. They are coming hack, when Bourne is shot through the chest, dies as he is being carried in. With more humor than All Quiet...