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MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN' - Herbert and Edward Quick - Holt ($5). Vivid history of a colorful epoch...
Nevertheless, the Franklin Institute adjourned well aware that it had celebrated a moment in scientific history that would mark an epoch of no small proportions. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Leipzig and the General Electric Co., where Dr. Coolidge had studied and worked, rejoiced generally and in unison...
...Johnstown mastodon is presumably a member of the species which roamed widely over the central states while the ice sheets were retreating northward during the last glacial epoch, an epoch of geological history which reached its climax between 25,000 and 50,000 years ago. This particular mastodon wandered around in Licking country after the ice had melted far to the northward from this place, as indicated by the fact that the remains are in swamp muck on top of glacial drift. It therefore lived between 5,000 and 30,000 years...
...Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
...Froissart, going on to Scott, Macaulay, Froude, Carlyle, Clarendon. He dwelt upon the opportunity for some historian to deal with the American Revolution from the viewpoint of the men who fought against Washington, from the viewpoint of "Old England" to whom the Revolution was, at the time, not an epoch-making event but simply a regrettable incident. Polite answers from the U. S. historians present greeted these remarks, but minds went back to ponder the proposition that bias is best in history. ... It was a reactionary proposition, quite out of line with the best liberal pedagogy...