Word: twain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trying something new, the Board last week placed an initial order for 600,000 new books for public-school children (sample authors: Mark Twain, Stevenson, Dickens, O. Henry) with eye-catching illustrations drawn mostly by the children themselves. These will be distributed free to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade pupils, to keep for their very...
...Twain Shall Meet- and Johnny Everyman-explore and deplore sources of racial prejudices...
...Twain and Pigeon. Tesla's experiments, few of them ever finished, were financed by such backers as J. Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, John Hays Hammond, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Samuel Insull. During the last 20 years of his life, Tesla holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, dreaming of bigger & bigger projects. Before his death last year at 86, he had announced that he was on the verge of: 1) inventing a death ray, 2) communicating with other planets...
...days before he died, Tesla sent a messenger with an envelope addressed to "Mr. Samuel Clemens, 35 South Fifth Street, New York City." Inside the envelope was a blank sheet of paper wrapped around $100 in $5 bills. No one could persuade Tesla that his old friend Mark Twain was dead. Cried he: "He was in my room, here, last night...
...plane reservation in one hand and a handful of snow in the other--there's the prospect that certain ones thirsty for sunkissed regions west may take an eastern holiday nevertheless. But take hope. For it was Mark Twain who said if you don't like Boston weather, just wait a minute, brother, and it'll change...