Word: reflections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...king is stung with the desire to fill out these billowing royal gauds, and do the king act in the grand manner of broad-shouldered Coeur de Lion or paunchy Henry VIII, let him read "Physical Culture" and reflect. His royal gaze will doubtless linger long over the sketch of a spindly person at the sea-shore with the distressing legend underneath: "Are You Ashamed to Appear in a Bathing Suit...
...significance of an announcement last week by Physicist Ralph C. Hartsough of Columbia that he had perfected a set of mirror-scales capable of weighing, distinctly and faithfully, down to one 280-billionth of an ounce. Gossamer quartz filaments balance the scales, the slightest titillation of which is reflected from their gold-mirrored surfaces by a ray of light. The ray is split by two half-mirrors, being reunited on the scale-mirrors, where any disparity between the wavelengths of the reunited portions is clearly seen as shadow bands. Thus, when the object weighed (1/29,000 oz. of quartz filament...
...College can build new laboratories. On the other hand, captains of Industry would not make these generous be-guests to the College if the College turned out educated men and women. Educated men and women like to read the same book more than once; they like to ramble and reflect; they prefer simple pleasures; they are, if not actual enemies, at least no assistants to the manufacturers of silk undergarments and cosmetics and high-priced cars. Industry prospers by reason of people who do not get their pleasure from Ideas but need Things to amuse them, playthings, who must have...
...days he knew that he must present his report to the Cabinet Council, decide whether to praise or damn his handiwork before the Chamber and prepare to justify his negotiations before the national convention of the Radical Party at Nice. He had need to listen and to reflect. Meanwhile, three interesting statements were made by others...
...Author. Events in the life of Willa Sibert Gather in no way reflect her steady growth from a college-girl reporter on the Pittsburgh Daily Leader to a deanship in American letters. Born of Virginian parents 49 years ago, she grew up in Nebraska, attending that state's university. From the Leader, she went to creative Writing, helped edit McClure's Magazine from 1906-12. She did not marry, but her literary offspring appeared at regular intervals, each more admirable than the last, until One of Ours took the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. In her quiet New York apartment...