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...Born 64 years ago in Ireland, Sir Joseph Barcroft has been Cambridge University's professor of physiology for ten years...
Masonite was not named for the benefit of the building trade but for the inventor of the basic processes-William Horatio Mason. A broad-shouldered, white-haired Virginia-born engineer who spent 17 of his 59 years working for the late Thomas Alva Edison, Inventor Mason went to Laurel, Miss, after the War to work out a method of removing and recovering rosin and turpentine from Southern pine lumber. He was more impressed by the waste of wood in normal sawmill operations, however, than by the possibilities of naval stores. As the price of naval stores declined after the post...
...love affairs, protest demonstrations, anti-war parades, strikes, arguments, psychoanalysis, unfinished novels and unwritten poems, of stories, gossip, limitless ambition, ineffectuality, tolerance and intolerance. As is the case with most of the current memoirs, the details of Joseph Freeman's personal story are less interesting than their background. Born in a Ukrainian village of Jewish parents, he lived there long enough to remember a pogrom, was taken to the U. S. in 1904. Growing up in the poverty-stricken Williamsburg district of Brooklyn, he learned U. S. ways painfully, was beaten up by Irish boys, stumbled over the English...
...course was more fortunate. Born with the sign of Sagittarius the archer, which governs "voyages and weapons and all swift things," in his horoscope, rising, he served throughout the War, won the Military Cross, had spent eight months overseas, including four months of the battle of the Somme, and 350 hours in the air, when he was transferred to the relatively safe job of trying out new machines. The story of his charmed life among the pterodactyls is an interesting, if uneven, book that sets a new mark in the reminiscences of War-time pilots...
This theory has been born out by Professor H.N. Russell who has also written a book on the same subject. Some of the other subjects discussed were the eclipse of June 19, the twenty-inch camera at the Lick Obserratory, the discovery of a red nebulosity around Antares, the appearance of a wave of bright novae, appearing in the Milky Way, and the misbehavior of the star Gamma...