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...rage with the officiating bishop, tore her gown and was carried fainting from the room." For three years all went well. Once Caroline was brought in "concealed under a silver dish cover, from which she emerged on the dinner table stark naked. ..." In the mornings William and she read "Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible"; then "Hume with Shakespeare till the dressing bell...
...eminence. Metropolitan box holders have begun to dodge their assessments. Last week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract be approved by the box holders, the Metropolitan would once more publicly pass...
Brag or Fight. Robert Hooke was an able, mechanically talented scientist who suffered the misfortune to be a 17th-Century contemporary of the great Isaac ("Falling Apple") Newton. He was embittered by having to live in the shadow of Newton's greater glory. But frustrated Robert Hooke saw, named, described and pictured living cells, and he appears to have been the first to do so. Thereafter numbers of other scientists saw and studied cells.** For a long time the mysterious little chambers of life were called by various names, such as "vesicles," "utricles" and "globules." Then Hooke...
...revealed last week that President Roosevelt last month pardoned, because of ill health, Broker William L. Jarvis of Newton and Scituate, Mass., who had served 15 months of a five-year prison term for fraudulent use of mails to sell stock. Broker Jarvis and four colleagues were SEC's first big captures...
...EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUTH-Newton Edwards-American Council on Education, Washington...