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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pink Run Loose Sirs: . . . frankly I doubt very much if I would care to invest the sum of $10 for a subscription, for you say "It all depends upon whether you agree with Philosopher John Dewey." Most assuredly I do not agree with John Dewey in some of his ideas. I knew him when he lived in Burlington and was in the University of Vermont, where I also graduated a few years later; I knew his brothers who were good fellows, but John Dewey, while a brilliant man in his line I am sure, does not appeal to me after...
...amazing because it was so quick. Pedley was stretched flat before any of the spectators realized it. It was all the more remarkable because Doolittle was boxing out of his class in weight-a light heavyweight in the heavyweight group. The incident, which is local legend hereabouts, and much retold, was an early proof of the quick-thinking faculty Doolittle has so often exhibited in flying. A friend of mine who saw him "sail out" at Cleveland says that many a pilot near the hangars said "Even if he is a caterpillar, he's still the greatest...
...rooms of the Bengal Chamber of Commerce, Clive Street, Calcutta, meet the principal India jute associations. Last week the Calcutta jute men might well have discussed something else besides how much jute was arriving from the north, what price it was fetching on the Calcutta bazaar, how great were the exports of finished burlap from local mills. For Indian jute dealers were aware that last week in Manhattan had opened the New York Jute and Burlap Exchange, knew that 11/16 of the burlap exported from Calcutta goes to North America. Made from the fibrous stalk of a hemlock-like plant...
...Olympic in Southampton, England, last week, carpenters went to work on a bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought...
With usual fanfare, the 28th annual Carnegie Institute International Exhibition of Paintings opened last week in Pittsburgh. On Founder's Day the afternoon before the doors were opened to the public, prize winners were announced. By that time the jury had dispersed. Painters and critics, never much pleased at Carnegie juries' selections, began to snarl, declaring that the canvases were picked by admen and suitable only for reproduction in Sunday supplements. This year no great name was accorded a prize. The first award was won by Felice Carena of Italy, whose picture The Studio was largest...