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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patent for improved photographic technique was taken out in 1868 by a lady named Sarah A. L. Hardinge. In the 70 years which followed, she and her descendants took out 174 other patents. Mrs. Hardinge's smart son, Hal, for instance, invented a machine which pulverizes ore by feeding it into a whirling drum containing a lot of little steel balls. Many a fortune has been made with it. It became generally known last week that Mrs. Hardinge's smart grandson had added a smart refinement to his father's famed "ball process" of ore reduction...
...pulled the lever again last week with another whopper, The Tree of Liberty (985 pages to 1,224 for Anthony Adverse). The book and the law of averages being what they are, no jackpot is likely to shower down. The Tree of Liberty, Elizabeth Page's first novel, took five years to write, will not take so long to read. Its breeziness is astounding, in view of the hot and heavy research the author did for it (32 huge collections of national, state, private records and letters, files of 26 periodicals, 183 biographies, histories, travel books, reference books...
Herbert Driscoll and Thomas Wheelan apprehended Mims Whose hands were bound by his coat belt. They prevented his leap and called the Cambridge police who took the instructor to the Longwood Street psychopathic wards...
...vigorous match that showed once more the aggressiveness of "Chief" Boston's wrestling, the Crimson grappler won a decision from his opponent, Robert Wolf, Penn's sophomore standout in the unlimited class. At 175, Dunc Longcope came through as was expected of him and took the Quakers' George Stiskney for a decision. Longcope is steadily developing into one of the best wrestlers on the team with his display of natural ability and speed...
Pennsylvania won in rapid succession the first three matches of the meet and looked as if they would upset the Crimson who were heavily favored, but from the 145 pound class on the Harvard team made a clean sweep. Art Page took his man at 145 with a decision, and so did Pete Illman...