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...McAn and John Ward shoes); granite (at Concord, Milford, Conway); power (notably the $32,000,000 generating plant at the 15-mile falls near Monroe, owned by Grafton Power Co., indirect subsidiary of International Paper & Power Corp.); boxwood (notably at Nashua, Keene and Rochester-where last fortnight bells were rung in celebration of the "Dryness" of the Wickersham report [TIME...
...under Presidents Tyler and Fillmore), "Defender of the Constitution." After an education at 13-year-old Phillips Exeter Academy and at Dartmouth, where "most of the stereotyped reminiscences of his friends seem to indicate that he was something of a prodigy and prig," Webster set his foot on the rung of Law, hoping the ladder would lead him to the presidency but his party, first calling itself Federalist, later Whig, was almost always out of power, too often for political expedience, upheld unpopular causes: a U. S. bank, peace with England in 1812, the Missouri Compromise, the Fugitive Slave...
...within 97 miles of the pole, England made a knight of him. Five years later, he set out again. Terrific ice packs wrecked his ship. He and his men camped on an ice floe for six months, were finally rescued by a Chilean trawler. In 1921, English bells were rung as Sir Ernest sailed away on another white voyage, his last. The following year on Jan. 5, he died of a, heart attack off South Georgia Island, 2,800 mi. northeast of Explorer Byrd's later Little America. When Lady Shackleton heard of his death, she insisted that...
There is justification, however, in the argument that the present regime tends to overemphasize the value of these printed works when considering the Who's who for Promotion. The rising young pedagogue who hopes to negotiate one more rung on the educational ladder is quite aware that, in some form or another, be it a rehashed obscurantism or a highly specialized bit of laboratory research, a book bearing his name on the title-page and the Harvard University Press imprimatur on the fly-leaf is a necessary footstool. Naturally, under such conditions it is unfair to criticize the youthful Ph.D...
Norma Shearer in her latest opus now playing at the University adds another quite substantial rung to her ladder of success. Her acting and other natural endowments add considerable to a plot that is slightly drab to speak mildly. What is more, she is one of the few women who is able to wear a hat as if it were an ornament rather than a necessary excrescence, and the remainder of her attire is correspondingly satisfactory. The major point is, however, that she plays her part as if she were an actress and not a model...