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...Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman whose jolly round head is adorned with a sugarloaf hat and gold-rimmed spectacles?President Daniel ("Uncle...
...Swann, president of the American Physical Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist will tell me that . . . he sees...
Savannah 36.4 Little Rock...
...ought to make a try for the topotypes, so gathered our blankets and provisions, reaching the place after a rather rough passage of a day and a night. We had an interesting time and secured most everything we went for. . . Together we turned over most of the loose rock on the island and after much search secured 16 species of reptiles, including, as near as we can tell from Waite's Reptiles of Southern Australia, all the topotype species at least--several geckos, two legless lizards, spring and long-tailed egernias, Amphibolurus, the small python which is common there...
Construction statistics on the dam ran into dazzling figures, difficult problems. Over 1,500,000 cubic yards of rock were removed from the river and nearby quarries. Eight and one-half miles of railroad track were raised without stopping traffic. Four thousand men were employed at one time in the work. The dam is 92 feet high and with the power house extends more than a mile in length...