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...possess in trying to better conditions of humanity, especially women, and having many years ago agreed to will my brain to Cornell (at their request), I hereby confirm that bequest, provided that a depleting illness or some special brain disturbance shall not have produced such brain disintegration as to render it no longer representative of the brains of women who have used their brains for the public welfare, as stated in the request of Cornell as the reason for wanting it, so as to add to the knowledge of the brain quality and characteristics of the "women who think...
...heavy death duties amounting to about $1,300,000), an automobile, a horse, carriage and about $100,000. Each of his daughters, including Lady Diana Duff Cooper, famed beauty, received about $100,000. The Duke was unable to leave anything to charity "as the heavy taxation and intolerable supertax render impossible any such action." He hoped that his son, now the ninth Duke, "will not spend his money to purchase unnecessary collections," but will "take care of his properties and the welfare of his tenants." Two young Danes, Neils Ventegodt and Emil Ullskov, both of the Viking Club of Copenhagen...
...short-sighted man, this desired inclination toward what is commonly called "world peace" may seem a thing, like the tropism of green twigs toward sunlight, so natural and to-be-expected as to render its discussion and "promotion" rather vapid solemnities...
...seemed to be some color in that familiar word as pronounced last week by William Dubilier, President of the Dubilier Condenser & Radio Corporation of New York. He contended that the perfection of short-wave radio devices, by definition consumptive of less power and hence of less capital, would soon render "the million-dollar high-power radio-broadcasting stations obsolete." Sailing for Europe, Manufacturer Dubilier took with him low-power radio equipment which he estimated as requiring 1/4,000 the power of such long-wave stations as KDKA (Pittsburgh), WJZ (New York), KPO (San Francisco), CFCA (Toronto...
Increased Canadian and European wheat crops, as well as the mishaps attending our own winter wheat this year, will render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival...