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...reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...
...years have passed since the Curtis Institute of Music opened its expensive wrought-iron doors in Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia. But the first Curtis commencement exercises were held last week. Scene was Casimir Hall, named for Casimir Hofmann, father of Pianist Josef Hofmann who directs the Institute for his great & good friend Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Curtis Publishing Co. gave Mrs. Bok her money and Mrs. Bok's money has given the Curtis Institute its proud reputation.* She hires the best instructors, takes only talented students, charges no tuition. Hence rare honor went with the 78 diplomas distributed among...
...that President Roosevelt thought Publisher Reid was making a silly spectacle of himself. The President's words: "Neither the millions and millions of people constituting the reading public nor the hundreds of individuals representing the overwhelming majority of newspaper publishers can, in any way, be concerned with or wrought up over the silly and wholly unjustified conversation on the part of a small minority who suggest that the freedom of the Press has been either destroyed or assailed." The President's rebuke to the Free Press defenders was part of his message to the 25th annual banquet...
...unreliable were the small irreverently named "God boxes" once pumped by Senator James Couzens, President Richard Whitney of the New York Stock Exchange, Frank D. Waterman (fountain pens) and Will H. Hays, now members of Funnyman Chester Werntz ("Chet") Shafer's Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers. Electricity wrought the change whereby fan-blowers automatically deliver the wind pressure and stop levers are wired to a complicated switchboard exchange...
Through work on a book on Engineering Materials, with chapters on Testing machines; iron--gray, malleable, wrought, alloy; carbon and alloy steels; heat treating; non-ferrous metals and alloys; copper, tin, nickel, lead, zinc, aluminum, etc., I have come in contact with many products and processes. In spite of the depression, there is marked activity in research work, and as there is activity in this field, then this is the one to train students to enter, instead of in the already overcrowded ones...