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Abram Hewitt's son, Peter Cooper Hewitt, inherited and brought to full fruition the inventive genius of his Grandfather Cooper. The late, great Michael Pupin marveled not only at the imaginative brilliance of his mind but also at his extraordinary physical grace, especially marked in the deftness of his hands. Rich and unorthodox in his methods, he invented the widely-used mercury vapor lamp, discovered the basic principle of the vacuum-tube amplifier, made many an other prime contribution to electricity and radio. He also pioneered in the development of hydro-airplanes, speedboats, aerial torpedoes, heliocopters. He died...
Eight years ago, as Charles A. Lindbergh peered at the lights of France through the periscope of his Spirit of St. Louis, he dreamed of a huge airliner which would some day span oceans on regular commercial schedule. Last week such an airliner, final fruition of Lindbergh's dream, soared up from San Francisco Bay, droned westward on the first flight of a regular commercial schedule across the Pacific Ocean...
...cottage and have had their first child, an amazing infant who has done no mean growing in her first four summers (played with delicate tenderness and piping falsetto by Robert Hormell). The plots of Squire Cribbs (snarled by James Wood from behind the blackest of moustaches) come to early fruition as the supple husband is delivered into the power of Demon Rum. Lower and lower sinks our here until the very meanest of New York's gutters will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from...
...pass an examination. If, as Dean Murdock seems to feel, increasing numbers of students are demanding of their tutors information available through research, the evils need to be brought out into the open. They should be met by a frank restatement of the ideals that brought the System to fruition, together with a warning to indolent souls that exorbitant demands on tutors will not only not be countenanced, but will lead to a withdrawal of tutorial privileges...
...there will be no more revolution in Germany." It claimed that every wholesome phase of the national life from farming to banking and from motoring to philosophy has been quickened and improved during "50 weeks in which more and greater things have been accomplished than have been brought to fruition in any previous 50 years...