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...broadcasts were popular and next year he began radio readings from his scrapbooks. That was a far greater success. Listeners everywhere began sending in bits they wanted "Tony" to read, even their own scrapbooks. (He has more than 200. The one which he currently uses is 27 in. thick.) Also over WLS he conducted a period of nondenominational devotions called "The Little Brown Church in the Vale." After a short career with Cincinnati's WLW, Wons joined Columbia in Manhattan. His income, including book royalties, is estimated near $2,000 per week...
...lecture room in the Jefferson Physical laboratory. They are made of ordinary glass with a ground surface, similar to that used in restaurant tables. The new blackboards, which were made in Pittsburgh, were installed because of their extremely easy writing qualities. The glass is about a half an inch thick, but is breakable. The blackboards look and feel so much like the ordinary kind that it is almost impossible to tell the difference between them...
...linoleum floors are laid with "battleship" linoleum 1-4 inch thick, and the colors have been carefully selected to harmonize with the two tones of the walls and ceilings. The laboratories, research rooms, and offices have made use of this type of flooring, which combines utility and beauty.THE NEW HOME OF THE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, located on Divinity Avenue, between the Farlow Library and Semitic Museum...
...were employed for nine years. It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Delaware together. Statisticians figured that the masonry in the Lloyd dam would build a wall six feet high, 15 inches thick and 520 miles long. It should provide farm work for an additional 2,500,000 people...
...outer case of an egg is its female element, the stuffing its male element, with temperature determining the predominance of either, contended Dr. Emil Witschi of the University of Iowa. To support his argument he showed pictures of incubating frog eggs. Those which were maintained at 59° F. grew thick shells, became female polliwogs. Those maintained at 82° F. developed big insides, turned into male tadpoles...