Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with an endeavor in which my "alter ego" is known. This is the first time I have ever written the facts of my little peculiarity for publication. Fortunately I was able to find out what had bitten me before it drove me into difficulties. Let us hope that the young man in Boston is not sent to an insane asylum-for I am sure a psychiatrist's services would straighten him out. Incidentally, there are two fine short stories which have been written on the subject- one, by Thomas Burke, appeared in the O'Brien anthology of Britsh...
Heywood Broun, New York Telegram colyumist, commented: "This young Negro . . . will be called upon to exercise as high a degree of courage as any flier who ever crossed the ocean...
...Life Extension Institute in Manhattan. In the interests of science Dr. Fisk removed all the clothing from a dozen men and women, carefully weighed the respective garments, found that the average woman wore 2½ Ib. of clothing, the average man 8½. Itemizing the costume of a young woman and a man, apparently conservative, picked at random, he discovered...
...completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank to get the financial experience for the Stone & Webster company which the young graduates already visualized. In 1889 Partners Stone & Webster each borrowed $2,000 from his father, opened offices in Postoffice Square, Boston. They had one employe, their Tech classmate "Jimmie" Cartwright...
Their first contract came from S. D. Warren & Co., papermakers. It was secured partly through an ingenious stratagem of Employe Cartwright. At that time typewriters were extremely scarce and expensive, far beyond the means of the young firm. Nevertheless, when Paperman Warren came to Stone & Webster to discuss the contract, the click-click-click of a typewriter could be distinctly heard from a back room. "Ah," approved Mr. Warren, "you have one of these new writing machines. That is what I like to see?a modern, progressive spirit." After Mr. Warren had left, the typewriter was discovered...