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Perhaps Cambridge has its attractions. Sophomoric rhapsodists can find much amusement in professors who tread hats and coats and the self respect of students with equal lack of fooling. The moronic intelligentsia works off the escape complex in a celluloid dosage of Will Rogers. H. T. P., whom the Vagabond admires, can wax lyric over the spire of Memorial Church, can weight the Church and Widener in the balance and find them not wanting, and can borrow the better puns of his admirers. There are those who listen to the radio, even unto the weather report. But at present...
...Astoria, N. Y. James O'Toole Jr., 9, cheered a Roosevelt radio speech, swallowed the Democratic nominee on a celluloid campaign button. An operation de-buttoned James O'Toole Jr. ¶ Into G. 0. P. headquarters in Manhattan switched a well-dressed woman who loudly exclaimed: "I'm for Hoover! I'm for him because he got us into this mess and I think he ought to be made to get us out." ¶ Daniel Willard. president of Baltimore & Ohio: "I expect to vote for President Hoover because I believe it's better...
...medical school declare that If every case of incipient tuberculosis in children could be discerned, doctors could ultimately wipe it out. Mr. Wright told this to Tinkerer Frank Powers who mused, perfected a system which would take 100 positive x-ray pictures on a roll of paper without using celluloid film at all. With Cloyd Mason Chapman, onetime Edison engineer, he then developed an x-ray machine which automatically focuses the x-rays on the subject to be examined and adjusts the x-ray current to the proper intensity. With this device two operators can make x-ray pictures...
...work in the field of Applied Elasticity has yet been done except with idealized structures; the Harvard experiments will be the first to measure the elastic qualities of actual structures, by means of photographing polarized light sent through models made of transparent celluloid. Stress is shown by varied colorings and patterns produced on a photographic screen by the light...
...Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr.; of California, Speaker John Nance Garner, Senator Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana, the entire Anti-Saloon League...