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...motive power. In the U. S. the Austin Co. has laid out the famed proving grounds of General Motors, built a foundry for Cadillac, put up in record time the Oakland-Pontiac plant. Similarly in Austingrad there will be a proving ground, foundries for grey iron, malleable iron, brass, aluminum, and separate but coordinated shops for every phase of automotive construction-bodies, radiators, wheels, springs. Even the water and sewage systems will be laid by Austin, and the contract price includes a theatre, library, civic centre, fire department, laundry, electric and gas plants, schools, office buildings, homes and dormitories...
...Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams. He offered to buy the Olympia from the Government, proposed to recondition her and anchor her in the Potomac near Washington, where hordes of sightseers could poke fun at her outdated guns or gravely consider the footprints on her bridge, outlined in brass tacks, where Admiral (then Commodore) Dewey stood when he said: "You may fire when ready, Gridley...
With the latest Mexican revolution successfully quashed, Secretary of War General Plutarco Elias Calles returned in triumph to the arms of his President and the streets of his capital. Waiting on the Mexico City railway platform to greet him was President Emilio Portes Gil, three brass bands, 25 Mexican generals...
...much emphasis is ordinarily laid upon intercollegiate athletics as a means of bringing colleges together, that one is tempted to overlook the quieter, more informal opportunities for contact. Newspaper headlines and brass bands blind the eye and dull the ear to all but the most spectacular events. And there is certainly nothing spectacular about a meeting of thirteen deans unless it be good material for the nightmare of a dropped Freshman...
Those who knew him well detected in it a hidden sweetness; but against the stranger it burned and glared, and guarded all avenues of approach. Startled it was like the eye of a wild animal, and penetrating. "peering through the portals of the brain like the brass cannon." Over it crouched bushy brows, and all around the great head bristled white hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head...