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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under "Meteorology" in Volume XVIII [Encyclopaedia Brittanica], page 284, at the end of the second column in referring to cyclones, I find: "The term cyclone among meteorologists . . . is equivalent to the older usage of whirlwind, and it is unfortunate that misunderstandings often arise because local usages in America apply the word cyclone to what has for centuries been called a tornado...
...puts moth balls in his uniform after a parade, that perhaps history will sneer at him, at his fiery crosses and his spooky Klonvocations. But, at least, in the encyclopaedias where uncolored statistics can cover a multitude of hokum, he and his several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern Ku Klux Klan in a cool, curt sketch...
...lean, spare, silent man of the hills is he. Mountain trails and trout streams he knows. If blindfolded in the dense woods, he could find his way out without bumping into a single tree. Ormond (erroneously called "Omar") Doty is an able guide and fishing companion of President Coolidge. Between them has grown a friendship which is shown by their understanding silence when together...
...love lyrics, proud independence and timid curiosity about Freud-these and their guardians, too, professors of both sexes, young and old, comfortably pedantic or secretly frustrate, testily brainy or docile and indulgent-even prexies, "the old boy with the gold-headed cane and administrative complex"-all these will suddenly find themselves exposed in a bright light of irony, but a light playing gently, warm with humor and comprehension. More extraordinary, the legendary figure of Andy Protheroe is so keenly and completely alive that it must irresistibly delight that growing herd whose sophistication includes an uninquisitive scorn of mass coeducation...
...next problem was to find cheat) electric power. This, it happened, was easy. Tobacco-man James B. Duke (died last October) was just completing in 1924 the huge waterpower development on the Saguenay River in Canada. His plant cost $40,000,000. It would generate 600,000 horsepower of electricity a year and do it so cheaply that current could be sold for $12 per one horsepower per year. At this rate bauxite could be hauled to the Saguenay, be reduced in electric furnaces to aluminum, and the aluminum worked into industrial shapes and household utensils with vast profits. Manufacturer...