Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellectually alive Brearley's; aristocratic, simple Miss Chapin's, lenient Finch. Famed private school principals throughout the country are Miss Marion Coats of the Sarah Lawrence Junior College, The Bronx; progressive Miss Elizabeth Johnson of the Baldwin School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Miss Eliza Kellas of well-equipped Emma Willard School in Troy, N. Y.; sound, slightly reactionary Miss Mira Hall of Miss Hall's in Pittsfield. Mass.; Miss Helen Tempte Cooke ("Dean of Girls' Schools"') of Dana Hall, Wellesley, Mass...
...Anatole France-Holt ($5). THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS, AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND His SON PANTA-GRUEL-trans, from the French by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Le Motteux. In one volume.-Simon & Schuster ($3.50). On the banks of the Loire between Meung and Orleans there is a bubbling well by which "the master" sat, and a stone table on which he is said to have written. Add a weeping willow tree, and the late great Anatole France has made a Chinese sage of Rabelais-scholarly, ruminative, hardly Rabelaisian. France sought to unroll this innocuous picture before Argentine audiences...
...Byers Co. Largest U. S. manufacturer of wrought iron pipe; is building a $10,000,000 plant for production of seamless pipe using a new process (Aston process) that reduces cost of wrought iron; affiliated with Oil Well Supply Co., which distributes Byers pipe to oil industry...
...industry has its accessory fields. Thus Scintilla magnetos are standard equipment on Curtiss, Wright and Pratt & Whitney engines. Thus ignition systems built by Delco Aviation Corp., General Motors subsidiary, are used on all Liberty aviation engines. As the aviation industry develops, so the making of aviation accessories increases as well...
...Corp., Electric Auto-Lite, Wright and Curtiss. The new aviation accessory corporation will be capitalized at $140,000,000 President of Bendix Aviation Corp. is Vincent Bendix, inventor of the Bendix Drive, now used on more than 30,000.000 automobiles, developer, also, of the Bendix Four Wheel Brake. Tallish, well-built, with brown hair and a boyish complexion that shows no signs of his having been in existence for almost haF a century (born 1881), Mr. Bendix is nevertheless alarmed concerning embonpoint. Lately he acquired an elastic belt to pre vent undue Bendix expansion. An incident in the Bendix rise...