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There is no use trying to get sympathy for your business worries from a soft coal man. Trouble is all he has had for the past twelve years. "To bring about the economic coordination of the coal industry," 1,000 men of science (like President Thomas Stockham Baker of Carnegie Institute of Technology) and men of industry (like Utilitarian Samuel Insull and Steelman James A. Farrell) met at Pittsburgh last week. Assembled at Carnegie Tech, the meeting was called the Third International Conference on Bituminous Coal...
...Coronation ritual proceeded Sultana Helen made her responses with a soft Scottish burr. At last, with the Lesser (female) Crown of Johore firmly planted on her Nordic head, she rode with swart Sultan Sir Ibrahim triumphantly around Johore Bahru, received the abject homage of its groveling, grinning populace...
...Stanford football team of 1894 of which Herbert Hoover was treasurer assembled at the White House last week for a reunion (TIME, Nov. 16). After greeting his old teammates the President led them out to the rear posing ground for pictures. In his soft hand he gingerly balanced a brand new football, marked '94. Then he went back to his office- "probably to count the gate receipts," jibed one old footballer. Because he was a good Hoover friend and biographer and onetime Stanford cheer leader, Will Irwin was invited to the reunion. He waved his arms excitedly while...
...though deep in thought, halt now & then to fix some speaking Senator with a sharp, doubtful glance. From time to time she will address the Chair to interject some comment, acid-humorous in intent-for her husband was the Senate's conscientious sarcastigator. Then she will resume her soft pacing through the aisles, around the back, shoulders hunched, pondering profoundly, a little bitterly...
...Graaff demonstrated his machine last week in a dark laboratory at Princeton, a soft crackling sound was heard, electricity "spilling" from the copper balls in a "corona" effect. Before spilling, each ball had stored 750,000 volts from the whizzing ribbons. The hair of everyone in the room slowly rose and stood on end in the galvanized atmosphere. Then came a sharp report and the spectators' hair fell back into place as a bright i.500,000-volt shaft of lightning shot from one ball to the other, the overflowing positive and negative charges rushing together. Significance was that this...