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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Life History Sirs: Probably you will be interested to learn how a copy of each issue of your magazine gets around down here: After spending a week in the public reading room of the Baltimore Y. M. C. A. it comes to me. My wife and I read it from cover to cover. It is then sent to Cumberland, Md., to my wife's home, here it is read by her mother, father and three sisters. It then goes next door to the minister's, where he, his wife and daughters read it. It is then sent...
...Washington, U. S. Representative Andrew L. Somers of New York received the following letter from two of his Brooklyn constituents: "I would like to know if you could pass a bill providing for half pennys. The reason is that around our way they sell cakes 2 for five cents, (5?), one costs three cents. So if we could have half pennys we would only have to pay 2 and ½ cents. Thanking you in advance. Answer please. MORRIS RAPPAPORT. MILTON WINSTON...
...hour after the market closed, the reason for these gyrations became evident. Officials of Guardian Detroit Group and Union-Commerce Corp.?two of Detroit's biggest banks ? announced their merger. Furthermore, the merged bank planned soon to acquire Bank of Detroit and eight smaller institutions in and around the city. With capital assets of $75,000,000, deposits of $350,000,000, the new bank christened Guardian Detroit Union Group, Inc. ? will be largest financial structure in the history of Michigan banking...
Para-Hydrogen. Dr. K. F. Bonhoeffer, 30, timid, blond lecturer in chemistry at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University, Berlin,† demonstrated that there are two kinds of hydrogen molecules. Around a glass tube filled with charcoal he poured liquid hydrogen which cooled the charcoal to almost absolute zero. Then through the frozen charcoal he pumped ordinary hydrogen which, as it poured out of the tube, passed over a wire heated to incandescence. A small mirror reflected a beam of light on a screen. As the treated hydrogen struck the glowing wire it interfered with the light and caused the mirror beam...
...idea lacks only seven centuries, an aristocracy, royalty, an established church, royal characters, religious persecutions, a list of martyrs, and a national temperament for the cloister in education, pedigreed restriction in competition, a desire to wear a gown as a muffler around the neck, and a determination to get rid of the cheer leaders without killing them...