Word: nones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-eight now, Charles Edison has often said that he was born with two strikes called. The late (1931), great Thomas Alva Edison was a genius, but a genius can be a hard father to grow up with. Gifted with none of his father's inventive fire, blessed with a great appreciation for the important trivia of living, young Charles Edison spread his share of wild oats around Llewellyn Park, N. J., where the family reigned in feudal quietude. Not until he had labored through Massachusetts Institute of Technology and settled down in the business end of the loosely...
...relationship with other Navy rankers. By statute and regulation the Assistant Secretary has under him the Navy's "shore establishments" (Yards & Docks; Engineering; Construction & Repair; Supplies & Accounts). He also has much to do with the Bureaus of Aeronautics (planes) and Ordnance (guns). But he -is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations is also interested. And over both is the Secretary of the Navy. But he is exclusively responsible for none of these; the Chief of Naval Operations is also interested. And nominally over both is aging (76), ailing Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus...
...undefeated St. Paul's team will be the hardest that the Frosh will have to face. With warmer weather forecast for tomorrow, they may find poor ice at Concord. The Frosh hoopsters are evenly matched with Tabor, who have lost none of their eight consecutive games, Coach Skip Stahley said...
Regrettable, I think, is the assurance with which the Crimson has decided that Professor Feild is Fine Arts' most popular teacher. Have you had a contest, or do you just know that among the "Fine Arts Six" none stands a chance...
...life, he was superbly egotistic. From his great teacher, Haydn, he insisted that he learned nothing. He made enemies because of his overbearing manner as fast as he made friends with his music; he disdained to hear Mozart's operas "lest I forfeit some of my originality." "I want none of your moral (precepts)," he once wrote, "for Power is the morality of men who loom above the others, and it is also mine." "I look upon them (mankind) only as instruments upon which I play when I feel so disposed. . ." And yet, "O ye men who thinks...