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...merely amusing aspect of it is the use of some words alien to my normal vocabulary. It just happens that 'papa,' for example, is a word which my family recognizes as one I dislike and forbid them to use; and now, when they read in your book of my using this word for my own father, they laugh quite...
From Berlin came a report of sucfessful tests of a metal noncollapsible diving suit. The suit has a metal body built solidly like the conning tower of a submarine, and flexible aluminum arms and legs. The air pressure within is kept normal,* and the air purified and replenished chemically...
...develops 500 horsepower at 2,000 revolutions per minute and weighs 700 pounds, or 1.4 pounds per horsepower. The larger develops 800 horsepower at the same speed and weighs only 1,072 pounds, or 1.34 pounds per horsepower. Both have stood up to the severest tests, in their normal position and inverted, on the testing block...
...first feel dissatisfied with the notion that his highest level of intelligence has already been reached. But a little thought dispells this uncomfortable feeling. In the first place, the rare thing is not to possess intelligence, but to utilize it. Probably no one will ever know how much the "normal" individual could accomplish, if means were found to extract and utilize all his thinking powers. Since no one does know everyone secretly prides himself that (except in particulars) he "has as good a head as the next...
...your issue of Feb. 9. 1925, you state "Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was founded in Virginia in 1868 by the American Missionary Association, became independent of missionary control under the ," Presidency of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong...