Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars to begin it." The visitor fished a checkbook out of his pocket, wrote out a check, passed it to President Lowell. The President looked in bewilderment at the signature: "Edward S. Harkness." Harkness? Harkness? "Why, thank you. . . . Ah, could you lunch with me?" he finally asked. "I'm very sorry, but my wife is shopping in Boston and I have promised to meet her. Good morning. . . . By the way, if the plan costs more, let me know how much." The unobtrusive man nodded pleasantly and went out. Months later, the "how much" proved...
...with Edwin Nash Sanderson, he formed the highly successful consulting engineering firm of Sanderson & Porter, today consulting engineers for American Water Works & Electric Co. Probably unconscious of the virtual homonym, Water Works Engineer Porter chose as head of the foundation's research committee George Booker Waterhouse, M. I. T. professor of metallurgy...
Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...
...rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe it or not, I'm a stowaway...
...Billings '31, G. E. Carlson '30, C. H. Curtis '30, F. L. Dahney '30, A. L. Durkee '30, D. B. Edmonston '32, S. S. Ganick '30, Jacob Ginsburg '30, A. R. Goodman '32, Nathan Gordon '30, C. R. Graff '32, C. D. Harrington '32, J. J. Jessel '31, H. M. Jones '30, J. M. Keller '32, J. W. Kukas '30, B. I. Lachno '32, F. J. Mardulier '30, C. N. Mason, Jr. '32, M. B. Nunlist '30, B. R. Painter '30, R. B. Pierce '30, G. A. Reed '30, T. A. Rich '30, H. A. Sarkisian '30, C. M. Shigley...