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Still undiscouraged, however, he con tinued to plan, to calculate, and last week his project at least reached as far as the newspaper headlines, and his bridge ap peared in diagram if not in steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an application for permission to construct a suspension bridge from West 57th Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey. First announce ments of the application linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications...
...modern mind,-i. e. "an overdeveloped faculty for thinking in space, and an underdeveloped or perhaps decayed faculty for thinking in time. With space-thinking alone to guide us we are apt to think our work done when we have devised a social scheme, system, or envisaged-diagram in which men and forces are placed (note the term) in right relationships to one another. Time-thinking immediately asks-how long will these men and forces stay where you have placed them, how long will the relationship last? For while everybody exists in space, nobody lives in space." To our TIME...
...Amaral sketched a diagram showing the entire development and distribution of the serum and emphasized the fact that the serum produced is a mixture of antivenin produced from all species of snakes in the country, so that a single product can be shipped to all parts of North America. The institute at Glenolden, Pennsylvania, is the central one for the United States and Canada, but the snake farm in Brazil produces the largest amount of the serum...
Clerk. Large on the diagram of House machinery is William Tyler Page, its clerk, 47 of whose 60 years have been spent in House service. In 1881 he became Page-Boy Page. In May he will celebrate his tenth anniversary as mainspring of the-order-of-business and lord high referee (unofficially) of parliamentary perplexities. A crisp-mustached Marylander, collaterally descended from President John Tyler and directly from Signer Carter Braxton of the Declaration of Independence, faithful Clerk Page is certain of his biennial re-elections so long as the House stays Republican...
...good complexion; nor improve the laborious heaping up of sentences that recall Freshman compositions in which every preposition helped to attain the required thousand words. In this case the required 214 pages contain the usual directions for shifting the weight from the right to the left foot; a lucid diagram of the centre theory (advising for net play a deep ball centre, which opens up less of the player's court to the opponent's return); repeated admonitions to practice "for is it not so in everything-the more one learns the more one realizes there is still...