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...Grace of God. Frederick Lonsdale, Englishman and author of the season's smartest light comedy, Aren't We All, has written another of the same. The drawing-room deftness of Norman Trevor will be applied to the leading role, with Estelle Winwood prominent in his support...
Synthetic rubber, long a goal of the "creative chemists," was successfully produced by Duisberg, the German chemist, and Perkin, the Englishman, some years ago. But the processes were not commercially practicable. Now Plotnikoff, also from Germany, has found a feasible formula. A uranium salt, used in conjunction with sunlight, produces an effect similar to, but much cheaper than, ultraviolet rays. The action of these rays on vinyl chloride made from acetylene, results in caoutchoue chloride, which can easily be converted into rubber. The American Association for the Advancement of Science, foreseeing the immense importance of knowing how to utilize...
...meant to produce a certain effect of philosophy and at the same time ... a certain completed interest of fiction, of relation, of a short epic. It did all these things. Kai Lung's Golden Hours is worthy of its forerunner." The Author. Ernest Bramah is an Englishman who knows China and the Chinese as few foreigners of any nationality know them. He is known in the literary world for The Wallet of Kai Lung and Kai Lung's Golden Hours...
...educationists. They had little enough compunction about meeting in a World Conference of Education at San Francisco, and the World Conference had even less hesitancy in perpetuating itself as a World Federation of Educational Associations, with an American (Augustus O. Thomas, of Maine) as President, a Chinaman and an Englishman as Vice-Presidents, and directors of appropriate race for Asia, Europe and America. The Federation is to meet every two years and its geographical sections are to meet every year in turn. There is to be a central office and research bureau which will be established for the present...
...left the sea, bought a cottage at Westport, Conn., and will live there with his mother, who is coming from England to join him. Here is an Englishman who has firmly adopted the ways of America. In the New England country, he will dream of the sea. He is writing another novel now, to follow his recent Command...