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...least there seems to be some value in a demonstration in which they exhibited: a three-quarter bed which constricts itself into a slender couch, two chiffoniers which measure eight inches and twenty inches in width, a reading table for the bed with top the size of a dinner plate, chairs no more rugged than most people's bridge tables, vases and lamps which economize themselves as they go skyward as rapidly as Gothic spires...
...curtain is an original oil painting by Claxton Byron Moulton, and is in effect a huge tapestry, measuring 33 feet in width by 17 feet in height...
...niece, Josephine, are engaged. But she is rescued from the Titanic disaster by smooth Garrit Rantoul, promoter of the aqueduct. She marries Rantoul instead of grim, underground, somewhat sandhoggish John. John, just promoted, quits engineering and goes on a star-spangled "bust," for three days rampaging the length, width and depth of the island labyrinth he had thought to help reconstruct...
...main section of this structure will face Oxford Street and will be about 50 feet thick, with two wings of different lengths running back from it toward Frisbie Place and the second building. The longer of these wings is to be about 84 feet long, not inclusive of the width of the main building...
...Victor instruments were evolved upon a basic patent taken out in 1887 by of Thomas Alva Edison, primarily in that the spiral sound-recording lines incised upon the records have a uniform depth and zig-zag laterally, while Mr. Edison has adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank...