Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...many years Sigmund Freud of Vienna has studied the tortuous ways of the unconscious mind. Moving his pale hands nervously about among the green pagan gods, the bronzes, the bizarre masks which cover the top of his massive desk at his home, he has written the testament of the psychoanalysts. This week in recognition of his lifelong work, he will receive the Goethe prize given by the German City of Frankfurt. The award is especially appropriate for Dr. Freud. Some 50 years ago, Goethe's essay Die Natur first decided him to abandon the writing of poetry which...
...Northern merger rounded another bend in its tortuous progress. President Donnelly of Northern Pacific made two significant statements to his stockholders: I) "I do not think so" (in reply to a stockholder who asked whether the disadvantages of giving up the Burlington would not outweigh the advantages of merging the two Northerns); 2) The Northerns are "considering" the purchase from the Burlington of its line from the Twin Cities to Aurora, 111., and the leasing of trackage rights from Aurora into Chicago...