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John Thorp's invention was a ring device for spinning cotton thread from cotton fibre more rapidly and perfectly than any previous machine. Mainly because of it is the present vastness of the world's textile industries possible. Of 160,000,000 cotton spinning spindles in the world, 100,-ooo.ooo use the Thorp ring. Very little is known about the inventor. The Ency-clopcedia Britannica mentions him only twice, misspelling his name "Thorpe" both times...
...Jubilee ran into dire difficulties. Dr. A. T. Davison '06 accused the three major dormitories of a lack of interest in singing and for a while the fate of the affair hung by a thread, showing how much the Jubilee depended upon its musical aspects for favor with the authorities. Gore Hall especially was accused of indifference, but it must have speedily organized a group of singers for it came to the fore and won the silver cup that year. Its submission enabled the Jubilee to be held that year on Wednesday, June 2. The famous traditional white flannels...
...over almost entirely to heartless catechism conducted by a district attorney. The third finds Fifi Sands imprisoned in a skyscraper apartment with the lunatic who, because he had loved Fift and was afraid to let her divorce his friend and marry another man, had killed her husband. But the thread of evidence is only one of the strands drawn through the astonishing tapestry of this play. It tries to reproduce the effect that such a murder might really have upon a small group of assorted polite persons. The play opens with a fifteen minute soliloquy from Harvey Bell Smith...
There is a faint mad thread of plot whereby famed Actress Cavendish nearly marries a millionaire and retires. Her lovely daughter has married; and in the third act retires from married life to the fascination of the theatre. The great character is aged Fanny Cavendish, pillar of the family tradition. She dies at the end. Thus the authors mix sorrow with breathless farce, the better to dimn the bewildering existence of this astounding family. Some fear the play is too acutely written from the inside of the theatre to appeal to audiences. The first audiences laughed resoundingly; and cried...
...appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby Ferril, third to Poet Babette Deutsch. Poet W. R. Benet's Lindbergh is adroit and satisfactory. The other poems vary from slightly above...