Word: blackinger
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When a group of students take on the task of voicing undergraduate sentiment, their powers for doing harm obviously exceed their capacity for doing good. Aided by the public's tendency to confuse the writings of a dozen men with the unanimous opinion of an undergraduate body, they win a...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered...
The Last Day began with a 50-gun salute at 9 o'clock in the morning. Whistles blew and bells rang for a full five minutes throughout Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over the Lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor pushed through the turnstiles. Two bombs signaled the...
Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812-1870), second of eight children, was born in Portsea, England. His father. John Dickens (the original of Mr. Micawber in David Copper field) was at the time a clerk in the navy-pay office at Portsmouth. When Charles was two the family moved to London...
In London a century ago Charles Dickens got a job in a warehouse at Old Hungerford Stairs. There for twelve hours a day he tied up pot after pot of blacking, stuck labels on them, earned barely enough to eat. Years later Dickens, out of the bitterness of his own...