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Another section of the delegation was entertained at the Advertising Club. Later the delegation ,was tea'd by French residents at the Plaza Hotel, and in the evening just before sailing M. Caillaux dined with 400 members of the Lotus Club, Nicholas Murray Butler acting as toastmaster. Dr. Butler...
...firm. His career since then is written in such buildings as: Connecticut State Library, Hartford Aetna National Bank, Aetna Life Insurance, in Hartford; the Department of Justice Building in Washington; and in Manhattan: the New York Cotton Exchange, National Park Bank, the Mutual Bank, the Lotus Club, the Institute of Musical...
...Tunis, regiments of workmen obeyed, more and less satisfactorily, the behests of many and various heads of a large Franco-American mobilization whose collective effort is being expended to uncover Carthage-home of Dido, Hannibal, Hamilcar-and contemporary towns of the Punic civilization, buried Utica, submerged Jerba-the lotus-eaters' island of the ancients...
...Thompson Institute of Botanical Research at Yonkers, N. Y., founded with a $3,000,000 endowment by Colonel William Boyce Thompson (TIME, Oct. 6) has been conducting a series of experiments on the longevity of seeds. The greatest record so far established has been with seeds of the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera). These seeds were taken from the dried-up bed of a lake in Manchuria. The lake-bed had been covered with loess, seolian deposits of dust from the Gobi Desert. The depth and stratification of the deposit enabled a rough calculation of the age of the seeds...
...become another Goblier Prairie? No doubt the student representatives were asked to address the Uplift Society. It is flattering to the American sense of superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn...