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...great corporations snatch at such new knowledge and profit from the usufructs. General Motors, General Electric, Westinghouse, Bell Telephone, U. S. Steel and others have their own research staffs. The research leaders. The fine character, the sure knowledge and the adept application of the men who lead industrial research in this country have done incalculable good in this persuasion of industrialists. Those described in Maurice Holland's Industrial Explorers epitomize the profession. For example: Willis Rodney Whitney, 60, directs nearly 400 chemists, physicists, engineers, research assistants, machinists, glass blowers, electricians, stenographers, clerks, for General Electric. They work in laboratories...
Prominent among rustic oddities displayed was a small, red brick cottage just completed by the Chancellor, who has personally laid each brick. All through the summer he has troweled vigorously, whenever he could snatch the time, assisted by his hodcarrying daughters, Sarah, Diana. By thus bricklaying, smart "Winnie" Churchill has achieved two objectives. His embonpoint is somewhat reduced; and. what with elections coming on, he has reaped much vote-getting publicity among the myriads of laboring Britons who have seen him troweling and slathering mortar in the "picture papers." Since the whimsical Chancellor has actually carried his stunt...
...captained his first year team and stood out as one of the bright lights in a rather dull season. In his Sophomore year he gained prominence and a high rating by a brilliant 47-yard dash through the entire Dartmouth team in the last minute of play to snatch what seemed certain victory from the grasp of the invaders. Since that time French has been a consistent performer in all the games he has taken part in. His chief weakness lies in his susceptibility to injuries which have often kept him on the side lines when his presence...
...present Hungary is ruled by His Serene Highness Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Governor of the Kingdom−which has yet to choose a king. Count Bethlen, virtually a dictator, leans covertly toward the electionists. The legitimists suspect him of wanting to snatch for himself 15-year old Prince Otto's Crown...
...daughter Fleur, the only descendant that bred true to Forsyte pride and cynical acquisitiveness, has worried her fate to tragic anticlimax. In The White Monkey fate (and Soames) wrenched her from the love of her cousin Jon; in The Silver Spoon fate (and Soames) taught her to snatch what she wanted; in Swan Song again fate (but not Soames) brings her Jon that she might snatch him only to lose him forever. For of the Two Forsyte Interludes one has told charmingly of Jon's new love, and the other poignantly of Soames' meeting his old love...