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...many and many a place where the New York World was only a name, there was consternation over its passing last year. The paper was to die, a great pity. And what about the World Almanac? Would there be no more Almanac? Would the schoolboy in Great Falls no longer search its pages for the latest figures on anthracite production in Pennsylvania - and pause to examine the fascinating his tory of lynching in the U. S.? Would the farmer in Nebraska no longer be able to find at a glance the height of the Empire State Building, the height...
Secretary Eldredge's grandfather was a famed mariner of Brooklyn. After 20 years of collecting, Grandson Eldredge, who started as a schoolboy, has probably the finest collection of ship prints in the U. S. It is valued at approximately $150,000, contains over 1,000 items...
...Many a schoolboy has burned himself with his father's magnifying glass. If he was a curious schoolboy he probably took the trouble to learn that the glass gathered together the sun's diffused rays and concentrated them on one spot, raising their temperature to the burning point. But even that temperature was far lower than the 6,000º C. on the sun's sizzling surface. Last week Chemist Robert Browning Sosman of U. S. Steel Corp., announced that by extending the principle of the magnifying glass he was able to capture half of the sun's 6,000º heat...
Individual starting and occasional excellent passing characterized the victory gained over a Milton Academy five by the Harvard Freshman basketball team yesterday. Coach Rufus Bend's men topped their schoolboy opponents by steady scoring, finishing with 32 points to their opponents...
Conening its season this afternoon the Harvard Freshman Basketball team journeys to Milton, to face a strong aggregation of schoolboy hoopsters. The game will start at 3.45 o'clock and should be a closely contested...