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Michael Pupin is known to many as the author of an autobiography, unique among its contemporaries in sanity and in self restraint. Yet his name will linger in history as one of the foremost scientists of his time. So it is with a certain respect that one reads his address at the gathering of the International Electro-Technical Commission in which he suggests the fraternity which is concomitant with science...
...other arriving dignitary was Wallace Rider Farrington, Governor of Hawaii, laden with a political purpose. According to almost incredible despatches it was nothing less than to obtain the aid of the Administration for the entry of 20,000 Hawaiian-born Japanese into this country. He did not linger in California...
...king is stung with the desire to fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...
...northern New York State linger some 3,000 Seneca Indians, remains of the terrifying Six Nations. Are they citizens of New York, or of the U. S., or are they forever free and independent ? War usually decides such an issue. But, of course, the present question will not be submitted to the arbitrament of the sword. The question went to the U. S. Supreme Court under the following circumstances : Two years ago, a white woman claimed the estate of a Seneca. She met opposition in the Indians' own "Peace-Makers' Court," went to the New York Supreme Court...
...queue of visitors and facing them obliquely as they approach, he extends his hand, grasping that of the first man in the line. Shaking the hand, smiling at the visitor and saying a word, he draws his arm back, pulling the visitor past him. Any inclination to linger on the part of the visitor is forestalled as the President extends his hand to the next and draws him, likewise, past. This practice is said to result in an economy in time...