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Thomas Hardy, Sinclair Lewis, the late Anatole France have variously been talked of as the best known of contemporary writers. But the dwelling-place of renown is not always in the high places. The Sophisticati may sneer; but the reading public extends even to the scullery and the attic. A census of that mysterious body would not impossibly reveal an equal extent of the fame of humbler wielders of the pen. The laughter of Olympus is no barrier to the literary delectation of the barely literate...
...lean, sober; they were the members of the American Chemical Society, assembled for their 68th Annual Convention. Two qualities they all had in common. One was a profound concern with the wonders that beset men's comings and goings, traffics and discoveries, on the earth. The other was renown. They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy. Sometimes the summer lightning of plain speech lit the cloudy thunders of their discourse . . . "$62,000,000,000." . . . "The most amazing development in History." . . . "How to cure rickets...
...March, 1922, geographer-President Wallace W. Atwood of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., won wide renown by ordering the lights turned out while Scott Nearing was delivering a lecture on Socialism to Clark students. Since then, he has been involved in various skirmishes with the student body, alumni and faculty. A year ago (TIME, June 11, 1923) a number of members of the faculty brought public charges against him, to the effect that he was purposely injuring and neglecting the famed graduate schools of the University in favor of his own Department of Geography and that he had weakened the morale...
...only is Senator Lodge the Nestor of the greatest legislative body in the world, and justly proud of the renown of his remarkable career, but he appreciates to the full the admirable qualities of Mr. Hanihara, he holds in highest esteem the splendid attributes of Mr. Hughes, and, in the course of his supplementary speech on May 8, while regretting his inability to grant the President's request for an extension of time in which to negotiate abrogation of the agreement with Japan, did not he say, with courtliness approaching enthusiasm, of Mr. Coolidge...
...regard to speed the comparison of the British and U. S. capital ships is: BRITISH Class Number of ships Speed Tiger 1 Iron Duke 21 Renown 31.S Royal Sovereign 23 Queen Elisabeth 25 Hood .. "... 31 Rodney 2 23§ UNITED STATES Number Speed All types 17 20.46 to 21. 33 Florida...