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...when he first entered the U. S. Senate. ... And perhaps in 1931, when his present term expires, he will be guiding his last annual three-billion-dollaf flock of appropriation bills through a stormy Senate with the skillful hand that gave him the subtitle of "The Greatest Shepherd since Abraham...
...complete the program: H. Emerson Whithorne's "Aeroplane," a tonal attempt at flight which taxied furiously without quite getting off the ground; III. Frederich Shepherd Converse's "Elegia Poem," from the melody of an old Negro slave song; finally two foreign compositions as a sop: the Mozart G Minor and Stravinsky's Fire Bird...
These and many more events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself...
...Last week the Company went even further, presented a German opera specially translated into English for its U. S. premiere: Tiefland, the tale of a villainous rich landowner in the Pyrenees, who has an unwilling young mistress. In the grand manner, she is rescued by a simple shepherd...
...prophesied that women, led by the U.S., will soon be wearing trousers. 'And,' said I, 'they will not be a mere short-lived fad; they will become as inevitable as bobbed hair, which is here to stay.' I accompanied my pronouncement with sketches of prospective trouser-designs: The 'Shepherd,' the 'Charleston,' the 'Elastic Sheath...