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Bred in the academic tradition, Whitney at first ventured only a gingerly toe into the unknown water of industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...
...Peace, was shot in the shoulder and head. His next brother, A. S. Peace, was shot through the stomach. His next brother, Ira J. Peace, was killed at Gettysburg. His next brother, George K. Peace, had his leg shot off. His next brother, J. Wesley Peace, had his little toe shot off. All in war. Do you blame the Peaces for moving out of Peaceburg when the Army moved...
...around the eastern circuit went Sir Andrew, even loitering for a while off Pantelleria (between Sicily and Africa) to try to lure forth the Italian Fleet. When it did not come, Sir Andrew ordered full steam for the Gulf of Taranto, in the Italian instep between the Calabrian toe and the heel on which Brindisi is the spur. In that instep, in the great naval base of Taranto, lay the bulk of Italy's fleet...
Figure skating on rollers is similar to figure skating on blades-except that roller skaters use the heel & toe where ice skaters use the blade's edges. Both have approximately the same 41 school figures. At the Arena Gardens, which "skate about 6,000 a week" at 50? a head, Manager Martin offers a half hour's free instruction in figure skating, elementary or advanced dancing every night. His 30-year-old son Bob and 19-year-old daughter Marjorie, aided by two other professionals, teach figure skating all day, at 50? to $1.50 for a 20-minute...
...print or ten bars of plain music. And as for ballet's being an "interpretation" of music; if the music accompanying a ballet is really good, it can stand on its own feet without interpretation. If it isn't good, dressing it up with a lot of arty toe-dancing doesn't, in my opinion, make it any more worth hearing...