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...long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver whole generations of mankind to the greasiest fry cooks of nether Hell...
McInnis expressed pleasure yesterday at the pitching of sophomores Pat Groper and John Semmelyer. These two men, along with another sophomore. John Arnold, loom as possible starters behind the "big three" of Bob Ward, John Donelan, and Rufe Webb...
...from his dreams Leonardo wrung some amazing realities. He took up military engineering, and invented prototypes of the machine gun, the tank, the explosive shell, the submarine. Turning to municipal planning, he conceived a city with two-level highways. He designed the first power loom, the first rolling mill, the first differential gear, the first picture projector. His studies in anatomy, hydraulics, mechanics, optics carried him centuries ahead of his day. Even his amusements made history: he invented a musical instrument that anticipated the harpsichord; he improved the printing press, rigged a style of oil lamp that was used until...
...Bigelow's carpets will use synthetics (carpet rayon), compared to only 27% a year ago. Other carpet companies, e.g., James Lees & Sons, are doing the same. To many a carpetmaker, the switch is the biggest single change in the industry since the invention of the carpet power loom more than 100 years...
...more than 7,000 islands and islets in the Pacific, and manager of the destinies of some 7½ million people. It took four years to subdue the guerrillas in the hills, battling for independence from caretakers-whether Spanish or American. General Arthur MacArthur, whose son was to loom even more largely in Filipino destiny, said of the guerrillas: Let's civilize 'em with a Krag rifle-and tried to. Then came years of civil rule, under strong and foresighted men like William Howard Taft and Henry Stimson. Taft's slogan was "The Philippines for the Filipinos...