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Veterans, "Many abuses should be eliminated. The nation should not ask for a reduction in allowances to men whose disabilities rise out of War service nor those with substantial service who have become totally disabled from non-war-connected causes and arc without support...
...should know are in the series of oblong French story books which Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Bernard's father, illustrated nearly 50 years ago. The late Senator William Andrews Clark knew them well and commissioned Boutet de Monvel pere to do a long mural panel of Joan of Arc which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose...
...Langmuir's investigation along this line led him to utilize hydrogen for welding metals together. When hydrogen is squirted through a tungsten arc light, hydrogen molecules explode into hydrogen atoms. The hot stream of atomic hydrogen can weld pieces of steel together and simultaneously drive away the oxygen and nitrogen which weaken ordinary steel welds...
...Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a sculptor fully equal in ability to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France, and in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
...Hadley's device for measuring angular distances was really an octant, employing a graduated arc of one-eighth of a circle. Capt. Campbell enlarged it to one-sixth in 1757 to use it for navigation purposes...