Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...layman recalled, is a genius of wide and varied activities. It was he who devised the method now so common of thawing frozen water pipes by passing electricity through them. Color photography and extensive researches on light have earned him important medals. He has studied secret signaling. He has written diverting fiction as well as three volumes on physical optics. His woodcuts are well-known, especially those illustrating the nonsense rhymes, How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers. And besides these things he performed, for many months in and around the year 1919, an exhaustive series of experiments which...
...Rhapsody on a player-piano that in one performance, at least, failed to synchronize with her fingers. Such embarrassments, eve r-p resent threats in the theatre, are sometimes boons to bored audiences. Future performances should refine the generally crude staging; but it is doubtful whether the play, as written, can ever succeed in expressing with even moderate success, the cleverly conceived theme...
...Story of Charles Darwin is not to be found here*. That was written once and for all by his son. Its bare outline is sufficient for Author Bradford's purpose: born in 1809 (the same day as Abraham Lincoln), son of a prosperous doctor, he attended Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, gave up tentative plans for medicine and the clergy, obtained the post of naturalist on the cruiser Beagle, was gone five years observing and exploring, married his cousin (one of the pottery Wedgwoods) in 1839, conceived the principle of evolution of species through natural selection the same year, fathered...
Colonel Driggs is the author of four books on aviation. One of them, "Fighting the Flying Circus", was written in conjunction with Edward Rickenbacker, the American ace, and narrates the experiences of the American aviators during the war. Tonight, a number of government films showing scenes taken in 1916 and 1918 will reveal this stage of flying development. In addition, photographic slides and films taken by Colonel Driggs himself will be used to illustrate his talk...
Nicholas Roosevelt '14, journalist and author, has just returned from a study of the conditions in the Philippines and has written a book on the islands entitled "The Philippines, a Treasure and a Problem." He served as an infantry captain during the war, has been special representative for the United States in Austria and Hungary, and is at present a member of the editorial staff of the New York Times. The following article by Mr. Roosevelt was written especially for the Crimson...