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...Hoover times. Republican MacNider had stoutly battled the Bonuseers but now he owed no political loyalty to the New Deal. However, at the heart of the Bonus agitation lay, as usual, a perfectly good Democrat, Representative Wright Patman of Texas. No. 1 Bonuseer, he was appointed to the sub-committee of nine which sweated to frame the convention's Bonus resolution. Meantime, their fellow-members, on record as resenting the President's remark that they were better off than "the average of any other great group of our citizens," held lavish carnival, with elaborate floats and trick uniforms...
...professor and his stooped figure and hesitating walk were familiar sights of the Yard. He was born on March 19, 1842 in Boston, and after attending Phillips Andover Academy for two years entered Harvard in 1860. After his graduation in 1864 he went to the Salem High School as sub-master, but was forced to stop teaching after two years and travel for his health. In 1870, President Eliot appointed him instructor in Greek, which was at that time prescribed for Freshman. In 1872 he was appointed instructor in Philosophy, and in 1873 become assistant professor. In 1883 he assumed...
Nucleus of the idea is a death ray ? a concentrated beam of sub-microscopic particles flying at velocities approaching that of light. The beam, according to Tesla, would drop an army in its tracks, bring down squadrons of airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by means of: 1) a device to nullify the impeding effect of the atmosphere on the particles; 2) a method for setting up a high potential; 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000,000 volts; 4) creation of "a tremendous electrical repelling force." Two of these are complete...
Novae are stars which, in making some obscure internal adjustment, flare up suddenly from sub-visibility, shine brilliantly for days, weeks or months, subside at last into their former faintness. Conspicuous as any stars in the sky at the peak of their display, they are spectacular but not rare, for nearly 40 have been observed since 1900. But the universe has superlatives. Once in a while a super-nova emerges grandiosely on the cosmic stage...
...first expedition, which had as its goal the Forbidden City of Lhasa, started in 1896. Over 16,000-ft. mountain passes, in bitter sub-zero weather, he led his dwindling caravan where no white men had ever been before; for 55 days they saw no other human being. Not since 1846, when French Missionaries Hue and Gabet had gone there in disguise, had a European entered Lhasa. On the last stretch Hedin cut down his party to three men. But word of their coming had reached the Tibetan Governor, Kamba Bombo, who politely but firmly about-faced them. Explorer Hedin...