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With the news that the whale-nosed Bremen had lowered the Atlantispeed record by nearly nine hours, the City of Bremen went wild last week. Germany's President, rheumy Paul von Hindenburg. sent congratulatory telegrams. City fathers, clubs and corporations lunched and dined, rapturously drank each other's health. In...
Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the...
The Significance. Unlike England's Shaw satirizing human institutions, Hungary's Molnar satirizes human emotions. Since institutions change while human nature does not, lyric Molnar will probably "date" less than pedantic Shaw when later generations take an accounting. Like Shaw, like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in...
Miss Chilton develops her curious theme with conviction. The relationship of each character to Lynneth she reports with delicate precision, thereby creating seven people in their sharp contrasts.
At this time the Engineering School is studying the foregoing phenomena. We are attempting to learn more of the electrical properties of the papers, oils, and of these electric discharges. To do this, we have already developed a precision high-voltage electric bridge which is capable of measuring very minute...