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...stakes, but Engineer Kolster was proud of his position and his profession. When John Stone Stone, one of U. S. radio's experimental pioneers, offered Mr. Kolster a job in the Stone Laboratories, Mr. Kolster at first replied that he was a civil engineer and why should he bother with wireless telegraphy. Later he changed his mind...
...grounds of puerility. At least, he leads us to think so when he attacks an editorial in the CRIMSON "as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books" and in the same "criticism" tells us that "the surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously, instead of ignoring it as the students do themselves." But perhaps Mr. Long really believes what he has written is not the "bother of adults" and regards his "editorial" precisely as the students of Harvard regard it: merely a collection of meaningless invective abuse...
...surprising to find that sort of editorial in a college paper, because undergraduate editors have a flair for making asses of themselves from time to time. The surprising thing is that adults bother to take it seriously instead of ignoring it as the students themselves do. E. Waldo Long Boston Transcript
...great majority were carried out. The lawns adjoining were littered with the bodies of the dead and dying, all yellow from the gas. Rescue squads worked over them with pulmotors. Only those who received immediate oxygen treatment survived. One man who had escaped said, "The gas didn't bother me. Help the others who are dying." Five minutes later he collapsed and died on the way to a hospital. An X-ray salesman who had been in the building, although warned to go to a hospital, insisted on helping the rescuers. He soon gave up, presented himself, laughing...
...race Columbia's crew sat up very straight and flattened their oars as crews do when they finish first. Three lengths behind them the Navy men were still rowing. A little later they too flattened their oars but they did not bother to sit up straight. Still later, U. S. Subchaser No. 440, which had carried the Navy shells and oars from Annapolis to the Harlem River, took them back to Annapolis. Glendon Jr. did not answer his father's telegram. He merely remarked to questioners, "Oh, that's an old New England saying...