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...presidents (he is almost the chum of President Coolidge, was his classmate at Amherst; also President Wilson trusted him). Mr. Miller, the onetime Governor of New York, might also slip into the Judge's place, indeed more conveniently than Mr. Morrow. He, since last October, has been the concern's general counsel, a director, and a member of the finance committee...
Inclined to the belief that schools which concern themselves solely with the development of military or naval officers are becoming more and more impotent in matters of culture and intellect, that they are too often sending forth men Ill equipped in anything without the precise and narrow bournes of their particular trade, one considers any movement toward incorporating the study of military or naval science within the category of liberal education is a step forward in humanizing the military profession and giving to the nation an opportunity to reduce the military to its proper place in the college community without...
...nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught a more southerly wind current and been blown across Germany to Krakow, 373 miles from Antwerp. The Belgica was third, 279 miles, and another Belgian bag, the Prince Leopold (winner in 1925), fourth with 192 miles. Great concern was felt for Pilot John A. Boettner of the Akron N. A. A., whose bag was known to have become waterlogged soon after entering the low-moving clouds, to have dropped to earth, bumped out Boettner's companion, H. W. Maxson, gone dragging off over a tilled field...
...Central Railway was so pleased to get its business back into its own hands that it engaged Mr. Logan to continue the good work, to write its advertising. The General Electric Co., the Anaconda Copper Co., the International Mercantile Marine, the Radio Corp. of America, and many another vast concern speedily sought Mr. Logan's services. He became known as a wizard at "institutional" advertising. The effects of his work are felt quite as intimately by the individual consumer-in a comfortable, punctual train; a well appointed ship; a sound security. But the distinction between the Messrs. Lasker...
...paragraphs Mrs. Wharton enunciates the fundamental differences between the novel and the short story, for "situation is the main concern of the short story, character of the novel." And it depends, she continues in her discussion of the short story, "almost entirely on its form or presentation." The short-story writer must not only know from what angle to present his anecdote if it is to give out all its fires, but must understand just why that particular angle and no other is the right one. This feeling of the mastery of the author is almost an invariable delight...