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Inventor Westinghouse, meanwhile, had been following Mr. Adams' movements and investigating Alternating Current for himself. He was prepared, when the bids were let, to construct AC generators on the Forbes design, and was quick to acknow ledge Mr. Adams' victory when the installations proved successful. The compressed-air plan was scrapped. Alternating Current began flashing from Niagara in volume sufficient to turn every wheel and light every bulb in Buffalo. When Lord Kelvin visited the Falls and signed the visitors' book, he cheerfully saluted the wisdom Mr. Adams had shown in proceeding contrary to the foremost electrical...
...than any other member of the Cabinet. First came the inept Wilbur speechmaking in the 1924 campaign, necessitating his recall to Washington. Then there was a series of Navy disasters ? the Shenandoah, the S-51, the S-4 ? for which no Secretary could have been held directly ac countable, but during which Secretary Wilbur handled himself so clumsily that he became the butt of worse than blamed ridicule. Pressmen made sport of the Wil bur high-kicking, the Wilbur Sunday school class, the Wilbur bed-time stories. Repeatedly came disgusted demands for the Wilbur resignation...
...Guard 19 190 5-10 New Britain H. Brown, M. T. '31 Tackle 20 180 6 Cushing Clark, L. J. '31 Back 19 168 5-10 Newton H. Cole, A. M. '30 Tackle 22 195 6-1 Terrill Crehan, P. J. '31 Guard 20 190 6-1 Bridgeton Ac. Ferrini, M. O. '29 Guard 20 185 5-8 Portsmouth H. George, F. E. '31 Back 21 156 5-8 Cushing Gilchrist, H. D. '31 Tackle 18 195 6-1 Cleveland Hts. H. Goodwillie, J. J. '31 Tackle 19 188 6-1 Chicago Latin Harris, R. S. '29 Quarterback...
...Farrell's titles for the year, more than any golfer has ever ac- quired at once, include: Metropolitan Open, 256 strokes; Wheeling Open, 146 (36 holes); Shawnee Open, 279; Eastern Open, 286; Massachusetts Open, 285; Philadelphia Open, 292; Pennsylvania Open, 295; Chicago Open...
...Masters published in 1920) got killed, Kit O'Brien leaves Petersburg, 111., with two of his friends. Hungry, they steal apple pie. His friends get caught, but Kit proceeds, Huck Finn fashion, down the Illinois River into the Mississippi. There on a houseboat he finds Miss Siddons, an impoverished ac tress with a disfigured face, living with a madman. When Kit dis covers that she too is an outcast from Petersburg, he obligingly takes her back there. Expecting to be arrested for the pie episode, he goes to the house of George Montgomery, who takes him in and hides...