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Around the platforms, which were at two levels, stretched on steel framework at an angle producing an optical illusion of startling actuality, was the 402 x 45-ft. oil painting, "La Panthéon de la Guerre" (TIME, May 2), showing last week for the first time outside of Paris...
...powerful telescope; a carefully-planned outfit for a South African expedition; a cushion for an instructor's office chair; fresh bottled-water for a thirsty professor; red and yellow chalk for the blackboards so plain that the students at the back of the room can see it; steel furniture for an anti-toxin laboratory; beakers, flasks, and evaporating dishes; 25 cases of books for the Sanskrit Department, printed in London and to be passed through the Custom House as nearly free of duty as possible. Are there blue books enough for the final examinations? Is there anything in that last...
...bright lights of all the great cities of the world go pale. . . . And I saw a country town, a country weekly, a country politician, with all the large leisure and golden opportunity for decency, comfort, usefulness and prosperity looming up before me as a career." Charles Michael Schwab (steel) visited West Point, entered the mess hall, saw the cadets were hungry, patted his pocket and said: "I have a speech here I planned to deliver but I guess I'll let you read it in the morning newsapers." The nub of the speech was that it is harder...
That students of comparative government saw absolute monarchy operating in Siam, paternalism in the Arabian desert, Fascism in Italy (where Mussolini greeted them wearing steel mail under his frock coat...
...Marinelli and George Lehman, nor of Machinist Mates L. E. Poyner and George M. McMichaels. The U. S. S. Teal, Navy tender, patrolled all that night but its searchlight picked out nothing beyond fragments of wing fabric, pieces of fuselage. Against lightning, rarely an accurate enemy, flyers of steel birds have no defense...