Word: p
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In your edition of May 27, p. 44, under the caption of Golden Jubilee, you omitted to mention the most important glass bulb without which the incandescent lamp would be impossible. The credit for the development of producing these bulbs on the scale required today belongs to the Corning Glass Works, and no small share of it to Ambassador Houghton* and his associates, who had the foresight and imagination to spend a fortune on the development of machines that would blow these bulbs, and on glass research, so that these machines could be worked. The earliest lamp bulbs were...
Sirs: Cols, I and 2, p. 9, TIME, May 29, you print an item from the Punjab, extolling Herbert Hoover as the "giant who feeds all people." Since Mr. Hoover's entire public performance rests in the fact that he was Food Distributor during the latter part of the war, this seems an appropriate place to interpolate a few words of comparison between Hoover and other unknown, but highly efficient Food Distributors...
...such Oxford occasions memorable remarks often made. In 1864. at the beginning of the evolution controversy (see p. 40), the great Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli exclaimed: "The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, am on the side of the angels...
...football men returning to college next fall are urged to send in their summer addresses and shoe and hat sizes to the Harvard Athletic Association before leaving college, according to a statement made last night by W. P. Lage '30, football manager...
Meanwhile the Crimson oarsmen have been royally entertained in their leisure moments upon the "Corsair" the palatial yacht of J. P. Morgan, who has for many years taken a few weeks at New London to provide rest and entertainment for the oarsmen. The crew squad will take an extended trip on the "Corsair" tomorrow...