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Some time early last month a balloon floated silently in across Cape Flattery on Washington's rainswept northern coast. The balloon, made of shellacked, parchment-like paper and bearing the rising sun of Japan, was a sizable object (33½ ft. in diameter) but nobody saw it, apparently. Eventually a 70-ft. fuse, connected to a small incendiary bomb on the inflammable paper bag, sputtered-and went out. The balloon drifted on across the Northwest...
Albert-Leonold Clement Marie, King of Belgium, was the guest of the University on October 5, 1919 when President Lowell, in behalf of the University conferred the LL.D. on King Albert in the Faculty Room of University Hall. In addition to the usual Latin inscription, the parchment bore the quotation from Shakespeare, "Aye, every inch a king...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn, who has been re-elected 15 times in a row, is not one to miss a political trick. This year he decided to surprise the 2,000 graduating high-school pupils in his Texas district with little parchment "diplomas...
...Boys, Toys Medals, honorary degrees, tributes on parchment are good toys for adults, but a boy wants something on wheels. Thus, the model Hurricane fighter (with rubber tires) which the R.A.F. gave Iraq's seven-year-old King Feisal last year was just right. En route to Feisal last week was another device, a belated Christmas present: a three-foot-long General Grant tank with a swiveling turret. It had wheels in stead of treads, but the chains were gold...
...genius of flood control without an engineering degree; still without degree he became a college president (Antioch, 1920) to promote the educational philosophy that a degree in theory hampers the success of many a man by limiting his imagination to the record of accomplishment certified on his roll of parchment: "the textbooks you've digested have told you how things have been done which is how they should be done...