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...years wore on, more millions were supplied to carry out Mr. Carnegie's design. Originally intended simply to pension superannuated pedagogs, the Foundation began a campaign of thoroughgoing educational research. To date it has published 50 fat, dun-colored bulletins and reports. President Pritchett had to bear the brunt of hostile criticism when, in 1918, the Foundation ceased giving further pensions, inaugurated instead the Teachers Insurance & Annuity Association (assets: $18,992,018) which insures the beneficiary at cost. In the U. S. and Canada 8,132 provident pundits are now guaranteed old-age annuities...
...impression that the people of Louisiana are Louisianimals. What scarce news TIME gives of this state tends more toward creating a picture of an indolent people ruled by a crazy governor and the dictates of a dying Democracy of the "Bible-Belt" South than a rather up-to-date state, very low in lynching scores, solidly for the repeal of Prohibition, and the matrix of much valuable thought...
...accomplishments of Academician Claude to date include invention of neon lights to illuminate advertising boards and air fields; a process for capturing gases from coke ovens which are converted into hydrogen, nitrogen compounds, innumerable drugs; a method for liquefying air which is used by the $25,000,000 Air Reduction Company; a method of dissolving acetylene in acetone, a process which yields $20,000,000 in annual sales...
William Miller, Baptist licentiate, began to preach in 1831 of the Second Advent of The Christ. This was to happen between March 21. 1843, and March 21, 1844. Miscalculation of the Second Coming was the Great Disappointment of Adventists. The date was then advanced first to October 1844, then to some early but indefinite time...
Birthday. Edward Payson Bradstreet, retired lawyer, oldest living Yale graduate. Age: 100. Date: June 5. Celebration: dinner of Cincinnati Yale alumni, who gave him a silver pitcher...