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...improbable that the experience of future nations will differ in any material respect from that which has happened since the twilight of the human race. It is for us, therefore . . . to maintain in our own hands adequate means for our own protection and, so equipped, to march with head erect and bright eyes along the road to our imperial destiny...
...Maeterlinck (of whose The Life of the Bee he was the direct inspiration) -but to the end he retained his superhuman patience, humility, cheerfulness. The French Government purchased his harmas as a public museum and living laboratory, and a movement is on foot among his neighbors and admirers to erect a monument at Serignan in connection with his centenary, now being celebrated. Fabreana are now flowing liberally from the press. Other late items: The Life...
...Wireless telephones between Britain and the United States within a year is a probability," said Godfrey C. Isaacs, managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Continuing: "As soon as we've settled the question of licenses with the British Government, we intend to erect a high power station in this country, while the Radio Corporation [of America] builds one in New York...
...Francisco subscriptions were started to erect a $500,000 memorial to Warren Gamaliel Harding...
Fanny Brice, actress: "At Atlantic City I underwent an operation to make my nose conform with my style of beauty. The New York Times remarked editorially that I had had the organ 'condemned and torn down and was about to erect a high-class modern structure on the site...