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...born in Shemokin, Pa., just before the Panic of 1893 (this was pure coincidence), of poor but honest parents. (Father was poor and mother was honest). We were, in fact, so poor that for economic reasons there was nothing personal in it--my mother dropped me out of the window onto the concrete pavement. I was quite unharmed, however, and just as my mother was about to repeat the experiment from a window one flight higher our old Indian servant stopped her, Pont," pleaded the faithful red-man. "Can't you see that the Great Spirit is reserving...
Nasty little urchins tickle your nose with feathers as you parade Mass. Avenue on your way to morning classes, and shout indescribable things about showing your true colors. And every Thursday you begin in see red, in every store window for miles around...
...report that school authorities in smoke-hung Birmingham, Eng., had investigated the hygienic qualities of window glass constructed to permit the passage of the ultraviolet rays of sunlight and found this glass so far superior to common panes that they had ordered it installed in all Birmingham schools (TIME, Oct. 18), had prime interest for U. S.* glass manufacturers. The Corning Glass Works (Corning, N. Y.), family company of U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Alanson B. Houghton, swiftly called attention (see LETTERS) to its recent perfection of a glass, soon to be produced commercially, which transmits 86% of sunlight...
...perfect transmitter for ultraviolet rays was found by science in fused quartz glass. But fused quartz is too expensive to put in school windows for little boys to knock baseballs through. The new Corning glass, two millimeters thick, is virtually as stable as standard window glass and only slightly more costly...
...into the choppy sea as best he could, but not without pitching overboard one of his passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke a cabin window and chopped a hole in the roof. They took posts on the broad wings and fuselage as they were told, distributing weight as evenly as possible to help the fabric keep them afloat. They were a little scared. The ship's heavy engines were taking her down nose first...