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[[red underlined]] Candle Company! [[/red underlined]] (Roars and [[over strike]] and [[/over strike]] of laughter and much applause.- Then I sailed in with my little story of the work of [[red underlined]] [[Nehuli?]] [[/red underlined]] and the future of gas - all which was well received and much applauded.
Next came [[red underlined]] Glascow [[/red underlined]] a gas engineer who in [[red underlined]] well chosen sarcasm [[/red underlined]] went further for [[red underlined]] Aldred [[/red underlined]] told him that although he Glascow was put down as an engineer he felt he was not entitled to that distinction because altho' he had studied and [[pr?tered as an engineer he had soon discovered that engineers are such keenly intelligent and active fellows that he
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could not compete with them in their profession but somehow or another luck has saved him in as far as nature had provided [[red underlined]] his inferior brain with a bump of a low order of cunningness, [[/red underlined]] so not succeeding as an engineer he had simply become a business man like Mr. [[red underlined]] Aldred [[/red underlined]] and hired clever engineers to do the work for him and since then money and reputation has come to him in quantity etc. . . - So [[red underlined]] Aldred [[/red underlined]] got [[red underlined]] well punished [[/red underlined]] for his impudence.
The motto of John's Hopkins is:
"Veritas vos liberavit."
June 17. Weather suddenly changed for the better. Clear sky and sunshine. [[red underlined]] Thomas [[/red underlined]] went with

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think it is actually: "Veritas vos liberabit" Well, no matter how Dr. Baekeland spells it, The Truth Will Set You Free. Instructions say if words are underlined, use the word 'underlined' in brackets, not 'underline'