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...discriminating scholar, Gamaliel Bradford is noted chiefly for his development of "psychography," as he calls it, a method of biography which discarding, as far as possible, chronology and external facts seeks only to reveal the innermost character of the subject. His admiration of Saint-Beuve was shown early in his widely acclaimed works on Emerson, Lee, and Pepys; ever since that time, with amazing versatility, he has continued to lay bare the souls of obscure and misunderstood characters. Despite justified charges of superficiality, his popularity attracted imitators, but the peculiar intimacy of his style defied duplication; his creation has remained...
Whatever the cosmic rays are, Dr. Compton is betting the next six months of his life that he will learn enough actual facts about them better to describe the innermost construction of all matter, in the study of which he is one of the world's top-notchers...
Died. Fred L. Boalt, of Portland, Ore., onetime editor of the Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying...
...Palmer of Wayne Pa., whose points gave him the championship. Dr. E. K. Roberts of Ventura, Calif., was second; A. W. Lambert, of the St. Louis Listerine clan was third. For the first time in national tournament history, six golds were made at 40 yards. A gold is the innermost circle of the target, counts nine points in scoring. The target consists of a central disc, 9.6 inches in diameter, four concentric rings each 4.8 inches wide, painted respectively from within out, gold, nine points; red, seven; blue, five; black, three; white, one point. Dr. Roberts made six golds...
James Maloney, one of South Boston's two contenders for champion Gene Tunney's heavyweight crown, found time between a series of strenuous three-round exhibition bouts at Loew's Orpheum Theatre, to divulge the innermost workings of the prizefighters' mind to a CRIMSON reporter...