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...plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased by movable screens, workers in actinic glass houses would get a maximum of insurance against rickets, pneumonia, tuberculosis. . . . Other exhibits prepared for the Exposition, to which engineers and architects are coming from the world...
Seward Collins, Princeton ex-'22, a thin-lipped, urbane, high-strung, young man of wide reading and literary acquaintance, has been a colyumist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He has tried his hand at novel writing, has peeked into psychoanalysis...
...gross operating revenues were $134,464,886, the greatest in the concern's history, considerably more than the $127,078,023 of the previous year. In report to stockholders last week, President Newcomb Carlton said that 64,000 miles of copper wire were strung during...
Last week off Gonaives, seaport of Haiti, the burning rays of a tropical sun shone on well-scrubbed decks and burnished brass and steel made rainbows in flying spray. More than 100 U. S. warships strung out in a long grey line against lazily heaving waves and the deep blue of the sky. Huge battleships, their flags flying, moved along like imperturbable swimming pyramids; slim grey destroyers cut through the water as precisely as a butcher's whirling knife slices cheese; ungainly plane and submarine tenders waddled past. The only sounds were the faint swish of the waves...
Effeminacy Hypothesis. William II, says Author Ludwig, possesses "the gifts of a high-strung nature beyond a doubt." With his incurable, withered arm he should have turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...