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President Moscicki is well and favorably known as the inventor of a potent synthetic fertilizer...
...strange ship Baden-Baden, with a black ball at her masthead to show she is a sailing vessel but with no canvas to prove it, moved in and out of New York harbor last week with distinguished company aboard. Inventor Herr Anton Flettner of Kiel, Germany, explained as best he could to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr., Manufacturer Walter P. Chrysler, Naval Architect Frederick Hoyt, Yachtsman Caleb Bragg, Shipbuilder Homer L. Ferguson, Financiers E. T. Irving, Harold Vanderbilt, Percy Rockefeller, and many another, what it was that drove the ship, whose Diesel motors lay idle, past harbor tugs, slow tramps...
Since Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University, Manhattan, penned his phenomenally popular autobiography, From Immigrant to Inventor (1925), the literary world has shared the opinion of many scientists that Professor Pupin is perhaps the greatest living exponent of electromechanics...
...John Hays Hammond Jr., who occupies as much space in Who's Who as his father; an inventor of electrical devices, especially in connection with radio and such companies as the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., which operate under some of his 224 patents...
THOBBING?Henshaw Ward?Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). "When a person THinks without curiosity, has an Opinion because he likes it, Believes what is handy?then he THOBS." Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin, able Princeton biologist, has called it, more simply, "wishful thinking." The inventor of the new word, excusably pleased with himself, hammers for nearly 400 pages to drive it into the language. Before he has done he admits that he is probably thobbing himself...