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Crain. The nomination and election of Mr. Crain in 1929 were commonly regarded as a feat of window-dressing by Tammany Hall. Chief qualifications of Mr. Grain for his job were that he had a reputation for austerity on the bench, was a Tammany sachem, had been a jobholder for 33 of his 70 years and was a prominent Episcopalian. It is Tammany precedent to nominate a Protestant district attorney lest the ticket be too topheavy with Roman Catholics...
...formers use "the Pater's" study as their club. When they sit listening to his slow, deep voice they feel the worth of the responsibility he assigns them as prefects, as supervisors of the two daily "Job Assemblies," where they see to it that the school's work?scrubbing, window-washing, leaf-raking, everything but cooking?is performed properly. Four or five times a term a whole form gets a holiday, goes out to work on the school farm (one of Connecticut's finest) or to unload a carload of coal?anything that needs to be done...
...seals so thinly are Lenard Ray tubes, invented by learned Professor Philipp Lenard of the University of Heidelberg, 1905 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Professor Lenard's tube, devised in the 1890's when modern physics was germinating, projects cathode rays through a thin aluminum or gold window. It requires a minimum of 70,000 volts to fire those rays through the metal windows. That voltage is expensive and difficult to handle...
...Major. Miltiades went grimly off to war and took orders from the man who had stolen his bride, until Crowninshield was killed at the Battle of Shiloh. Polycarp and Augustus Vaiden were too young to go, but they did not think so. One night they climbed out of the window and ran away to enlist...
When St. Gandhi entered New Delhi to do verbal battle with Viceroy Baron Irwin (TIME, March 2) at least 80,000 Indians mobbed him with acclaim. Affectionate pressure stove in a window of the Mahatma's automobile, showered his blanket with splintered glass. But last week the skinny little champion managed to leave New Delhi amid a demonstration twice as orderly, half as large. He had only signed a truce...