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...blood of Dutch immigrants from what had long ceased to be a homeland across the seas. After the Boer War, the Afrikaners were second-class citizens in what they regarded as their only country. Their solution was to take refuge in and inspiration from their churches and societies???notably the mysterious Broederbond?which knit the community together, and to wait for a time when political power could be theirs...
...Forty famed engineers gathered at the White House luncheon table. After the meal they awarded to their host, President Hoover, the John Fritz gold medal, highest honor of the American Engineering Societies???civil, mining & metallurgical, mechanical, electrical...
Finally, the modest, patient subject of two hours of eulogizing, John Frank Stevens of Manhattan, civil engineer, received in his hand the John Fritz* Gold Medal, highest award of the four U. S. national engineering societies???civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical? for specific achievement in the profession...
...Yerkes Observatory (largest in the world), and the 72-inch reflecting telescope at the Dominion Observatory, Victoria, B. C. But his chief claim to fame is probably the establishment, through a gift of $500,000, of the Engineering Foundation, a joint research agency of the "big four" national engineering societies???civil, mechanical, electrical, mining-and-metallurgical...
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