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This is doubtless an error. I believe it has been generally conceded that the discovery and introduction of indirect lighting was attributable to the work of the late Mr. Augustus D. Curtis...
Immediately on his return from the epochal flight to Paris in May 1927, a "group" of sky opportunists snapped up Charles Augustus Lindbergh, made him "technical adviser." By 1929 this group was Transcontinental Air Transport and had the world's No. 1 civil aviator fly part of its first coast-to-coast trip over the route he had charted. When its successor, Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc., was formed in 1930 it kept the slogan...
...Christians were blowing up still more Moslem homes in reprisal for the burning of the airport. The Mohammedan world, familiar with the methods of a Christian whom they called "The Strongman of Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem villagers were too poor to pay, their sheep...
Author Booth Tarkington, an art lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
Wild, who is an authority on Saint Thomas, Saint Augustus, Plato and Aristotle will stress the philosophies on which Christianity was established, denying the existence of a Christian Philosophy in itself...