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...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...Line Shudder. Bob Doherty was impressed with Tech, but he was not a man to be easily satisfied. Over the next 14 years he made Tech hum. He raised $4,000,000 to begin the first building program the school had had in years. He boosted the endowment from $17 to $30 million, tripled the size of the library, upped the number of full-time students two-thirds. Instead of a mere 27 advanced degrees a year, Carnegie Tech was soon giving...
...Doherty's concerns ran deeper than enrollments, endowments, or even research; he had ideas for changing Tech's curriculum that made many an old-line technical prof shudder. Doherty was among the forward-looking men in technical education who realized just how limited a strictly technical education might be. However skilled they were, he decided, most engineers were "illiterate about the world around them." They were able to do amazing things within their own narrow fields, but they were helpless once they went beyond. As professional leaders and as citizens, said Doherty, they were next to useless...
...There were also scattered legs, arms and heads. The flies were terrible and the stench was worse. A lean and frightened dog skulked nearby. "I know those bastards are Reds, but I still don't like to see dogs eat dead people," a bearded sergeant said with a shudder as he bounced a rock off the dog's ribs and sent him yowling into the paddy field...
...looked up and saw a small hole in the dike through which a tiny stream was flowing. Any child in Holland will shudder at the thought of a leak in the dike! . . . That little hole, if the water were allowed to trickle through, would soon be a large one, and a terrible inundation would be the result. Quick as a flash he saw his duty . . . His chubby little finger was thrust in almost before he knew it. The flowing was stopped! "Ah!" he thought, with a chuckle of boyish delight, "the angry waters must stay back now! Haarlem shall...