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At 10 o'clock one morning last week in a sunlit room of the great white marble U. S. Mint in Philadelphia, the guardians of honest money assembled to do their annual duty. The testers were mostly deserving Democrats appointed by the President: Judge John H. Druffel of the...
(3 of 3) forget," she ended, "and think of me sometimes." Tchaikovsky's wildest pleas brought nothing after that but a polite note from Nadejda's son-inlaw, to say that she was too ill to write. They never corresponded again, died within three months of each other...
Borrowing from Macaulay's pleas for competitive civil service examinations, President Conant declared his suspicion of new fields of study, saying that to abandon the old disciplines is to jeopardize "the selective principle in our educational machinery". The issue here he showed to be whether an educated man is one...
¶ In May 1933, at a grade crossing six miles east of Toledo, the N. Y. Central's famed 20th Century Limited collided at 75 m.p.h. with a truck tractor and semitrailer owned by Sentle Trucking Co. The railroad promptly sued Harvey H. Sentle, declaring that his driver had...
Further pleas were answered by a Great Silence. Mrs. Houdini then said clearly: "Houdini has not come. I do not believe he will ever come." She covered her face with her hands. The lights went up and photographers crowded forward. In the street a Halloween firecracker exploded.