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Thereupon he put the box in a hole in the wall of the new building, and handed a marked brick to England's Astronomer-Royal, Sir Frank Watson Dyson. The Astronomer-Royal patted some mortar on the brick and with it plugged the hole-in-the-wall which contained the copper box. saying: "As is the custom of godfathers. I place the care of this magnificent observatory into the hands of its most capable parents...
...editorial introduction urges the substitution of a financial-economic system cut to fit the present age of plenty in place of one that is tailored by the banking system expressly for a machine-murdered age of want. Contributors include Hilaire Belloc and Grand Duchess Marie of Russia. Will Dyson, onetime cartoonist of the Labor Party's Daily Herald, prints a scathing etching; Paul Banks reviews the drama, Storm Jameson, novels. From a "Western Newspaper Man" Editor Orage has received and amazingly printed a scurrilous parody of the 23rd Psalm which has for many months circulated...
...Dyson: Oh yes. We buy from day to day. Business along our lines...
...Dyson: Well, I would be ashamed to tell some of the prices...
...Dyson: In one Pennsylvania district we just bought some coal...