Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broods much about the vast stores of energy in sunlight which man does not utilize. In his youth he was closer to earth. Fresh from Harvard with a magna cum laude (1882), he went out to western Pennsylvania to help his brother build a plant for making carbon black (used in printing ink, shoe polish, automobile tires, etc.) from natural gas.* From carbon black he made a fortune. During the War, when he was nearing 60, he learned to fly a seaplane, patrolled Boston's harbor for the Naval Reserve, looking for German U-boats, spotted a whale...
Uranium's Older Brother...
...Harvard finding concerns ordinary, or common, lead, which may be called the "older brother" of uranium lead. Ordinary lead is as old as earth itself, and was included in the molten mass of the earth before it cooled down...
...American Newspaper Guild President Heywood Broun, music critic and composer Deems Taylor, publicist Stanley Hoflund High, cinema editor Colvin Brown, distiller James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, novelists John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy) and Ursula Parrott (Ex-Wife), journalist Quentin Reynolds, advertising executive Jack Pegler (brother of Westbrook), literary agent George T. Bye. Saluting its neighbors, the Nutmeg announced: "We have no policy. . . . The Nutmeg is our cracker barrel. There will always be a seat for you on a nail keg. We promise to supply at least two problems where you had only one before...
...twelve years been an Anglican divine, conscious of failure in his missionary trip to Georgia in the Colonies. At Oxford, where Wesley spent much of his time, Methodism was a derisive name applied to members of a "Holy Club" which Hymn Writer Charles Wesley founded and in which his brother became a leader. John Wesley never left the Church of England. In essence his doctrines were: justification by faith alone; freedom of the human personality; purity of heart; the reception of the Holy Spirit by man. Methodism today strives to implant the Christian faith not only in personal...