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When Gladstone first took his seat in the House of Commons (1833), the Victorian era was moving in, pushing back into history the last remnants of irreverent, aristocratic Whiggery, pushing forward the businessman. In faith, in morals, in background, in purse, the young Gladstone seemed every inch a new Victorian. How, then, did he become the most hated as well as the most adored English statesman of his century...
...preconceived ideas. Then he called in as consultant a Chicago firm (Schmidt, Garden & Erikson) that had built 150 of them. One of the innovations concerned the facade. The architects found that they could save and have a stronger wall if they faced it with about an inch of pink Georgia marble. Thanks to the rosy marble, Houstonians speak affectionately of the Anderson Hospital, now a $9,000,000 reality, as "the pink elephant...
Revision of Cambridge facilities has included construction of a $100,000 building, and new optical and electronics laboratories. Menzel added that a 111-year-old refractor, once the largest in the world, has now been completely restored. The 15-inch instrument is the largest at the Cambridge laboratory...
Half of the funds allotted by the Corporation were spent on the Agassiz observatory, which uses a 61-inch telescope, the University's largest...
Calmly and cautiously, Fermi gave the necessary orders. Inch by inch, a neutron-absorbing control rod was drawn out of the reactor. The instruments watching its behavior began to click louder. Fermi would not be rushed. At 11:35 a.m. he casually remarked, "Let's go to lunch," and the reactor was shut down...