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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...succeeded Nathaniel Eaton, the first school Master, a "rare scholar" but one who fled after having corrected one of his assistants, for it is recorded that Eaton "beat him for nearly two hours with a walnut tree plant big enough to have killed a horse and a yard in length." For this disciplinary action the public demanded his discharge and a 30 pound fine...
Inside the Capitol and up & down the three vast office buildings, plans were laid for the first session of the 77th Congress. Main piece of business was to get rid of Session III of the 76th, which still dragged its wounded length along. This session had sat almost as long as any Congress, had approved more peacetime appropriations: $23,135,740,635,15. (Even the 23-odd billions did not include long-range commitments of $4,000,000,000 for the two-ocean Navy...
Builder Moisseiff said only that the bridge failed because engineers do not yet know enough about aerodynamics, that lack of funds had forced the building of a bridge unprecedentedly narrow for its length. In Tacoma, chief engineer of the bridge, Clark Eldridge, charged bitterly that State highway engineers had protested the design, had been told that Federal money-lending agencies demanded the employment of a nationally famous engineer as a requirement for lending the money. With the bridge covered by insurance, Tacoma citizens waited to find out whether it could be rebuilt, whether the same towers and approaches could...
Studies made of fathers and sons who have both gone through Harvard show that there has been an average gain in height of 3.5 centimeters and in weight of over ten pounds. With respect to the torso much greater gains in length were registered by the abdomen than by the chest, Dr. Seltzer stated. Although greater appreciation of the art of eating might be suspected as an explanation for this phenomenon, Dr. Seltzer was unwilling to hazard an analysis...
...majesty and length (301 pages...