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Inasmuch as the entire fair is intended to portray the advances in science since 1833, the contrasts between conditions then and now could be introduced frequently, as for example, in transportation methods, size of cities, type of buildings, known and unknown lands...
While this outdoor model would be specially designed to portray the advances in geological knowledge and research, it is proposed that the idea be considered by the committees which are planning the geographical, mining and metallurgical, agricultural, botanical, zoological, engineering and other exhibits...
...Wallstein, whose characterization of a prosperous M. P. who loses for a day his carefully attained sense of value, is very finely done. Miss Hill and Miss Crocker, in the leading feminine roles, have little acting to do, but do it gracefully. Mr. Jackson and Mr. Joyce portray satisfactorily the spineless characters they represent; Mr. Meyer is more successful, in a more positive part...
...necessity be supercritical or he would not be in the newspaper business, much less in that peculiar branch of sophisticated criticism that goes by the name of editorial writing. For aside from other considerations, it is the attempt of nearly every modern newspaper to lead rather than to portray public opinion in its editorial columns. The mail, published daily, and consisting of the interested contributions of enthusiastic or irate readers of the editorial columns is sufficient testimony to the diversity of opinion. And, as is obvious, such questions that may have two sides, representing enough partisan interest to evoke comment...
Design: All the new bills are black & green (no more "yellow-backs"). All $1 bills portray Washington, all $2s Jefferson, $5s Lincoln, $10s Hamilton, $20s Jackson, $50s Grant, $100s Franklin, $500s McKinley, $1,000s Cleveland, $5,000s Madison, $10,000s Chase...