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...sensational articles in the New England Courant. Aged 17, the apprentice printer and anonymous author of the articles runs the Courant's circulation up to a dizzy 40, sorely vexing the Rev. Cotton Mather. His brother, out of jail, jealous, beats him. He quits long-nosed Boston for freer, easier Philadelphia, where his articles have excited sympathetic comment...
...Santiago Canyon region in California their messenger dog came crawling on his belly. His eyes were red from the smoke, his fur burned by shoots of fire. While rangers comforted him, he licked his burns, fell asleep, whimpering. This must not happen again. So District Ranger Bill Freer made him an asbestos coat, good protection. Asbestos, a mineral found notably in the Province of Quebec, does not decompose under even relatively high degrees of heat. Nor does it allow heat to pass through it easily. Another characteristic is its resistance to most acids. These points and the fact that...
...Wells has felt the necessity for a new approach to his rostrum, an impressive, unpoliced approach that will at once command unusual attention and leave him freer than ever to expatiate upon the human spectacle. In The Outline of History he had to deal dutifully with many matters of transient and undisputed consequence. Moreover, history is but the gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while...
...Named for the late Engineer Clifford M. Holland who devised the system of fans that is guaranteed to keep the tubes freer of carbon monoxide than a car-crowded city street. *The next largest: Blackwell Tunnel, under the Thames in London; length...
...Evolution to the future, to "practical results." He talked about the "multiverse" instead of the universe, as being more flattering to individuals, who might then consider themselves important, active parts. John Dewey (1859-) of Columbia University has had a broader acquaintance with his countrymen than James and is freer of European influences. He is one of the few scientific philosophers with faith in democracy. Pedagogy is his prime interest and he seeks to introduce the experimental methods of the laboratory to social and political science. He is a Darwinian evolutionist, stressing growth as the hopeful fact of life, utility...