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...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...
...found that Mr. Burke and Mr. Apted were not the only persons who risked their lives by occupying Harvard's oldest dormitory previous to its renovation. When the inside partitions were removed, the walls of the building swayed perilously, and had to be reinforced both inside and out. The workmen employed refused to work without double insurance...
Cities. Descending from his train, the traveler finds that the stucco-plastered brick buildings of Russia have been smartly replastered; and have lost the ragged-wallpaper air of early Communist days. Many new buildings are going up: two and three story structures, laboriously raised bit by bit by clever workmen, as in the days of Peter the Great. The Orthodox Churches, generally seem well cared for by their parishioners, despite Government opposition...
Four Russian agitators, after dallying several months in China, arrived at the Tokyo railroad station. A straggly thousand Japenese workmen desired to see them, meet them, fraternize. The Tokyo police were instructed to prevent these courtesies, and, 400 strong, intervened between the visitors and the astonished workmen. Some violence and a few injuries ensued...
Four Chinese dockyard workmen assaulted a coolie as a conclusion to interchange of insults such as "A plague upon your grandmother." The four assaulters, taken to prison, were followed by a dockyard mob. Police fired, killed two, wounded several...