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...boss of the small Akron, Canton & Youngstown Railroad, Harry Bartlett Stewart Jr., 44, had spent half his life shipping coal. But Bart Stewart thought there was a better way to do it than by train. Last week, he formed a company to build the longest conveyor belt in the world to haul coal and ore. It would stretch from Lorain on Lake Erie for 103 miles south to East Liverpool on the Ohio, with branch belts to Cleveland and Youngstown...
...first session of the plane geometry class at Pomona (Calif.) High School, the teacher, "Old Man Bartlett," drew an intricate problem on the blackboard. "This problem," he announced, "contains all the geometric theorems I am going to teach you in this course. If any of you can solve it before the end of the semester, he will automatically...
...Paul D. Bartlett '31, professor of Chemistry; Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics; Shin Lu Chang, assistant professor of Sanitary Biology; Cocil K. Drinker. professor of Physiology; Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics; James L. Gamble '10, professor of Pediatrics; Harry L. Hansen '37, associate professor of Business Administration; John N. Hobstter, assistant professor of Engineering Science; Roland B. Holt, assistant professor of Physics; Edwin C. Kemble '17, professor of Physics; Eugene M. Landis, George Higgins Professor of Physiology; Harry R. Mimno '28, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics; J. Howard Mueller, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology...
...What Bartlett needs now is to have its splendid, grab-bag riches winnowed and put in order by a touch of scholarship...
...despite this editorial caution, the new Bartlett is full of inconsistencies and badly lacking in proportion. Some of the major poets and novelists seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries with 9½ columns, and to give quotable Ogden Nash four, but in general | the space allotted to each "name" seems arbitrary, to say the least...