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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Impelled by the resistless logic of this thought, the musical Moravians called their Pennsylvania town Bethlehem. Upon their arrival, they built a stockade, a church, organized the trombone choir. Legend maintains that, when predatory Indians beleaguered the town in 1755, the strains of the trombones so enchanted their savage bosoms that they buried their tomahawks and sought salvation with glittering eyes, clad only in belts of wampum. The concerts of the Bethlehemites, however effective in war, were for long informal, unorganized, until M. Woole (born 1863) went to Germany, studied under Rheinberger, became the passionate admirer of Composer Sebastian Bach...
...senses could affirm that an Americanising architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five centuries countless generations of poor scholars wore down the hollowed steps from their pristine rectangularity and looked...
...expedition will satisfy the most skeptical or most prejudiced minds. The chemists have left no stone untreated and have found that the deposits and corrosions of several centuries clearly differentiate the stonework of the monastery from the later structures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which were built around the venerable tower of the great mother-pile. Corroborative evidence, if it were necessary, can be produced from Cambridge, which was probably at that time an important centre of learning, though it suffered many vicissitudes in its later history (see index under "Business School circular No. 47" on 'The present situation...
...Last week, Harrison Williams of Manhattan, a patron of Beebe's expeditions, purchased the 1,245-ton Vanadis, new German-built yacht of Mr. C. K. G. Billings. He said he would equip her to take the place of the Arcturus, which is a chartered vessel. Burning oil in Diesel engines, equipped with a 30,000-lb. gyroscopic stabilizer, the Vanadis will cruise long without refueling, will permit deep-sea dredging in heavy weather such as hampered Prof. Beebe's recent efforts in the Sargasso Sea (TIME...
...these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead of it. The whole business has been built out of its extraordinary earnings. Five years ago, Wardell's five henchmen invested among them a meagre sum in the business. On May 5 last, the Company expanded its capital structure and distributed some of its surplus, in the course of which the five were handed cash to the extent...