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...peculiarly Yankee, a blue-bellied, Vermont Yankee to the core. He had exhibited absolutely no initiative. He had spoken no memorable phrase. ... He played no poker, drank no liquor, made few friends. And Mrs. Coolidge, who had come with him from the duplex apartment in Northampton, Massachusetts, for which they had been paying twenty-seven dollars a month all their married life, and who moved with him into one of Washington's rather grand but noisy hotels, had to work hard, those first seventeen Washington months of the Vice-Presidency, keeping him awake after bedtime in Northampton at nine...
Churchmen therefore were justly irate to discover that their newspapers had copied the list from "Church Business," an eight-page advertising leaflet published by the Duplex Co. of Richmond, Va. This concern makes envelopes to contain church-money offerings...
...where the two parties could talk to and hear each other simultaneously. Hitherto messages could be spoken only one way at a time, but German engineers have eliminated the interference of sending with receiving antennae. Just a push of a switch and the listener could become the talker. The duplex set operated on a wavelength of 1,800 or 1,450 meters. It was found effective up to 700 miles. Other conversations were held between the Columbus and persons in their offices in Germany; and when the Columbus reached Manhattan, U. S. telephone officials went aboard to examine the device...
...Durham-Duplex Razor Company is conducting a competition in advertisement writing at Harvard. Al members of the University are eligible. Ten $10 prizes, one $50 and one $200 prize are to be awarded to the writers of the best advertisement for the Durham-Duplex razor. Rules and information may be obtained from B. D. Nash at the Lampoon Building Thursday evening, November 11th, from 7 to 8 P. M. All men who cannot be present are requested to send word as to when they have free time. This competition is also in progress at Yale, Princeton and Cornell...
...serve two interests, and if at any time a man seems to be under the control of two opposite motives it is always the case that those motives are warring with each other and sooner or later one of them will gain the supremacy. We speak of men of duplex personality, but there is not duplex personality that is not at the same time a disintegrating personality...