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...Pennsylvania member. In 1933 President Roosevelt remedied this state of affairs and did his political ally. Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania, a favor by giving an I. C. C. berth to Senator Guffey's brother-in-law Carroll Miller. Mr. Miller, a lanky six-footer whose lantern jaw, stooped shoulders and pince-nez make him look like a schoolmaster and whose extraordinary drawl and dry wit sometimes make him sound like a Will Rogers type hayseed, hails from Richmond, Va., has spent most of his 62 years running utilities in the U. S. and Japan. Since marrying Mary...
...Wells's books, Brynhild or The Show of Things also encouraged Wellsians by its age-belying vigor. The story of a clever man's disintegration and an honest woman's fulfillment, it is also a Wellsian fable, told without his usual blackboard charts and magic-lantern slides, of the human search for reality...
Then to the stand stepped lantern-jawed, short-haired Ira Jewell Williams, who testified that his partner General Brown had never, never, in 34 years on the Board, considered or acted on any matter involving the Snellenburgs...
...sectional conferences was that of the Society for Research on Meteorites, of which Dr. Nininger is secretary. He had been waiting for this occasion and he was much in evidence-slim, dark, bespectacled, lecturing in a deep, pleasant voice, pointing a bamboo fishing pole at his lantern slides. He gave three talks, introduced two of the other speakers...
Daphnia, a one-fourth inch relative of lobsters and crabs, can live in ten drops of water. It is small enough for its whole body to be studied through a microscope and transparent enough to be projected upon a magic lantern screen (see cut, p. 32). These qualities make Daphnia a fine biological subject on which to test drugs, Professor Viehoever recently realized. For Professor Viehoever, Daphnia solved an important strychnine puzzle, he enthusiastically told the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Denver this week. This bitter, crystalline product of nux vomica is used as a tonic, stimulant...