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...history has been recognized as the only art which has given to the human hand the supreme privilege of penetrating, exploring and working in the interior of the body of man. And in this, the surgeon's art transcends all others, even that art which has accomplished the marvel of transfiguring inert clay, marble and bronze into dreams of beauty and esthetic delight for the delectation senses." of the imagination...
...represented in the White House, is daughter of the late O. S. A. Sprague, wealthy Chicago wholesale grocer (Sprague. Warner & Co.), sister of Col. Albert A. Sprague, 1924 Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator from Illinois. Inhabitants of Pittsfield and environs tell anecdotes of her troublesome deafness and marvel that her interest in music is so intense, little knowing that an ear unsensitive to hurly-burly street sounds and flat conversational tones is the more sensitive to nuance in musical vibrations...
Pulling themselves together after the inimitable opening speech of their royal president, smooth Edward of Wales, the august members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting last week in Oxford, deployed about the town to attend various section meetings, where marvel after scientific marvel was related demonstrated or predicted. Evolution. Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, was there as a guest to expatiate upon the enormous difference between Evolution as it is understood today and as it was debated in Oxford half a century ago by Darwin...
Texas. Even hard-bitten plainsmen marvel at the spectacle the voters of Texas have permitted to be staged in their gubernatorial office-the spectacle of a woman governor's husband occupying her official desk and quite openly running the state's business in her stead. And no day passes without some echo of certain highway-building deals perpetrated by Jim Fergusen behind the petticoats of Governor Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson, his obedient wife...
...Herr Rumpler"-Herr Manager Rumpler of the famed Rumpler Airplane Works, Germany-when he addressed the Society for the Scientific Study of Aircraft Development at Dusseldorf last week. But knowing Herr Rumpler's proven abilities, and chary of trusting even their doubts, people listened respectfully to the marvel he related...