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...with General Electric was happier over Dr. Langmuir's new honor than Dr. William David Coolidge. Drs. Coolidge and Langmuir are good old friends and General Electric collaborators. They have worked together in the same laboratory the past 23 years. Dr. Langmuir now holds the top place in U. S. chemical learning. (Only other U. S. savant to earn a Nobel Prize for Chemistry was Harvard's late Professor Theodore William Richards, 1914.) On the other hand Dr. Coolidge last fortnight attained what may well be considered the top job of U. S. industrial scientific research,* when President...
...story of the acquisition of great wealth, through a lottery ticket by the family of a poor Parisian shop-keeper. After many trials and tribulations, the family decides that it was happier when it was poor, and consequently returns to its former scale of living...
Things are going badly for Linda's scolding mother at Shawn's farm. None of the children has done well at school or in marriage. Linda dreams of being a nun. But David comes home again with Rose and happier times follow. One midsummer evening in her 15th year Linda walks out in the apple-orchard, lies on the ground, feels a strange change in her mind, her blood. Shawn's farm is no longer the heart of her world. The orange moon, ris ing over the apple trees, is to set her life's tides from...
...surprise," beamed Sir William, "the parents' choice appears to determine the sons' careers even more than the daughters'." Replies convinced him that British two-child families of today are happier than five-child Victorian families; that there is less intra-family snooping and gossiping and that, as an anonymous British oxyacetylene welder wrote: "No man, young or old, need hesitate at saying that a woman is his friend...
...persuades the cuckolded pair to "play it my way" and succeeds in getting the goods on the sinners after innumerable complications. And in the end, in his same omnipotent way, he gets signed confessions, steamship passages, gems, --sorts them out to the various principals, and leaves the world a happier and better place to live...