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Died. Dr. David Bancroft ("Debe") Johnson, 73, founder (1886) & president of Winthrop College for Women at Rock Hill, S. C., onetime President of the National Educational Association; of colitis; in Rock Hill...
Perhaps it is fortunate that the theory didn't come earlier. We might have lost two very convenient lines of verse if Fitz-James had realized that his rock was shifting from its firm base at that very minute. And Juliet might have spoken more respectfully of "the inconstant moon"--which is now, by its very inconstancy, shown to be the villain in the piece, exciting supposedly immovable earth to the most unsettling twitches and tremors...
...Brilliant example of the air industry's swift enterprise. Young R. B. Snowden Jr. of Memphis, Tenn., reorganized Command-Aire, Inc., only last October to make biplanes at Little Rock, Ark., to sell at $3,250. Sales directed at business and college men have made Command-Aire a leader in the industry. *At $2,400 without motor. TIME, Dec. 3, erroneously printed the price as $24,000. †The Gypsy is the third British motor to be made in this country The others: Cirrus, similar to the Gypsy; the Bristol Jupiter air-cooled radial...
While the old Marshal pondered Mme. Joffre, sitting beside him in a rocking chair, was observed to rock more vigorously. Her husband, with half closed eyes perhaps fixed on things far away, seemed to reflect as ponderously as had Old Dr. Tuffier over backgammon. Suddenly Mme. Joffre stopped her quick rocking, sat up bristling, spoke: "I wonder-I just wonder-how many people would claim they lost the Battle of Marne, if he had lost...
...Odell, a member of former expeditions to Mt. Everest and at present Lecturer in Harvard University, will accompany the showing of the ascent of Grepon at the Union Sunday night, by an explanation of the technique and skill involved in rock climbing as the picture progresses. Grepon is considered the most difficult ascent in Chamonix and these pictures were taken especially for instruction in the art of mountain climbing...