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...brown-stone edifice handsome in its simplicity, dedicated to the Christian Church. Beside this building a most peculiar structure leaned. Round in shape, and encircled with columns, it was the leaning belfry that had brought more fame to Pisa than its prowess as a seaport or the renown of its University. About the base of this leaning tower a gathering of men had formed, who, straining their eyes, were gazing toward the topmost row of columns. Silence fell upon the waiting circle. Far above a bearded man in flowing dress held up his hand, stilled the crowd, then spoke...
Even at the peak of his renown he had great visions. In 1900 he was ready to cure tuberculosis with oscillating electricity. In 1909 he promised motors capable of driving ocean liners at 50 knots. In 1911 it was stormproof dirigibles without propellers. In the last decade his annual utterances have been mostly rehashes of previous interviews, with something new every three or four years. In 1924 he was planning to transmit power by radio. In 1927 he was scheming to harness sea power. In 1931 he would make all fuels superfluous by tapping cosmic energy. Last week Dr. Tesla...
...Thomson. Losey leaped inot prominence along Broadway last year by his excellent treatment of Albert bein's "Little Ol' Boy," while it is chiefly because of his musical setting for Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts" that Thomson, former director of the Harvard Glee Club, has won renown...
...Arthur and Sir James are, at first glance, as like as two peas. They are both practicing astronomers of great renown. Astronomers value the Eddington work on the internal constitution of the stars, the Jeans's work on stellar dynamics. Theorists prize Eddington's Mathematical Theory of Relativity, Jeans's Dynamical Theory of Gases and Mathematical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism. For popular consumption they both write with clarity and grace. The Mysterious Universe by Sir James has sold 123,000 copies in Great Britain, 39,000 in the U. S. The Nature of the Physical World...
...from the University of Illinois have gone some 100,000 graduates, mostly to become solid citizens, a few to win renown. Most widely famed is Footballer Harold ("Red"') Grange. But Sculptor Lorado Taft is an alumnus, and so are Litterateurs Carl and Mark Van Doren, Motormaker Ray Austin Graham, Sanitary Engineer Arthur Newell Talbot, onetime (1928-32) U. S. Senator Otis Ferguson Glenn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's onetime (1923-31) President Samuel Wesley Stratton. The late great Stuart Pratt Sherman taught English at Illinois for 17 years...