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...Under these circumstances, Mr. President, for me to comply with your request that I resign would carry an implication which I cannot permit...
...Ardmore, Okla., one Ethel Hindman, ranchman's daughter, at the request of cinema photographers and before the marveling gaze of 4,000 yokels admitted at 25 cents each, stood up on the wing of an airplane, leaped into space, curved down 40 feet to cleave the waters of the city lake. The force of the impact split her bathing...
Night gun tests, conducted with circling stabbing searchlights of 2,000,000 candle power, against targets lowered (by request of the land gunners) from 8000 to 5000 ft., resulted in the firing of 360 shells, in only two hits on one target...
...year ago, President Hopkins of Dartmouth College received, by request, a report on "the liberal college," why it should exist, how it ought to work- from a dozen members of his Senior class. The students had gathered their information, resolved their theories, on visits to numerous U. S. institutions of higher learning (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924). Then, in May, President Hopkins received and had published A Study of the Liberal College by Prof. Richardson of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, whom he had commissioned to visit colleges abroad, especially in England (TIME...
Having spent my life in using such brains as I possess in trying to better conditions of humanity, especially women, and having many years ago agreed to will my brain to Cornell (at their request), I hereby confirm that bequest, provided that a depleting illness or some special brain disturbance shall not have produced such brain disintegration as to render it no longer representative of the brains of women who have used their brains for the public welfare, as stated in the request of Cornell as the reason for wanting it, so as to add to the knowledge...