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...Seventeen years ago last week, in smart Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh's East End, Westinghouse engineers installed a wireless telephone and three transmitters, announced that they were sending "up to a radius of 2,000 miles" on station KDKA the complete Calvary service. Only two months before, Calvary's Rector Edwin Jan van Etten had listened to the world's first radio broadcast, on KDKA-the Harding-Cox Presidential returns...
...doctor's office overlooked Central Park at a height of seventeen elevator seconds from the imitation marble floor. It resembled the attic of a mechanically-and-chemically-inclined household; his secretary had the look of a woman who had taken one look at the attic and refused, on practical grounds to tidy it. The doctor opened his mouth in a smile and pointed out a chair. Assuming that he was offering a seat, the Vagabond sat down. No, the doctor said, I want to know if you can see that chair; this is my own preliminary eyesight test...
...have had seventeen children, Your Excellency, and fourteen of them are living, but only nine have been born since April 15 1926-so I have entered only the nine in this contest, Your Excellency...
...idea clung to by academic men, namely, that one cannot teach a teacher to teach, has been exploded by the results of Dean Holmes's School in the seventeen years of its separate existence. The School attempts two jobs and does them well; it trains teachers, who must know, besides methods of instruction, educational psychology, mental hygiene, and statistical means of measuring growth and achievement. Through a cooperative arrangement with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, launched in 1935, the teacher must also be thoroughly acquainted with the subject he is to teach. The second job, the technical training...
...would the Head of the House treat her as having the rank of Royal Highness-a rank King George VI has not yet bestowed on his American sister-in-law. Der Obergruppenführer Herzog von Coburg steered a middle course. He gave a dinner of 18 covers. Seventeen of those at the table were men. The 18th place card read "Ihre Koenig-liche Hoheit der Herzogin von Windsor" -Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Windsor...