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James E. Howard presented a list of changes which he said the bill would require and which he declared would bring about chaos in industry: Grocers would have to get new scales, new measures (to take the place of peck, bushel, quart); housewives would have to alter their recipes to fit metric units; gas meters, water meters, tape measures, yardsticks would all have to be altered or replaced; measuring machines on counters would have to be reconstructed, new machinery devised for folding goods by meter instead of the yard; shirts and collars would have to be renamed?the 16-inch...
...neat and whitely painted Hotel Roosevelt, Manhattan, a group of sufficiently burly individuals lolled in easy chairs. Their adequate necks supported the brains of the Intercollegiate Football Rules Committee. Though the Football Coaches' Association had recommended publicly that the Rules Committee should not alter the 1925 rules, it altered with a will...
...made the measure of the confidence and support which the University will accord him. That support is already complete. It will not be diminished or increased in proportion to the number of touchdowns his team scores in the Stadium next fall. Needless to say this does not alter the fact that ten thousand men of Harvard, or whatever the number has now become, are hoping that great numbers of them will be scored and that the Harvard goal line will again become as inviolate as it was in the days when Coach Horween was player and Captain two college generations...
...POLITICAL NOTES) that $500,000,000 could be saved by having fewer Federal employes and keeping them on the job, the Congressman was mistaken; that as for the Senate's resolution asking him to enter the negotiations in the anthracite strike, it gave him no authority, did not alter the deadlock, and he saw no more reason for intervening than he had previously...
...Applied Science (Cleveland), President of the American Physical Society, participated in the original ether-drift experiments of Professors Michelson and Morley 20 years ago, upon which Dr. Einstein built his theory of relativity. Dr. Miller's new figures are the most complete and accurate yet made and tend to alter, if not to disprove, Dr. Einstein's propositions. Also, establishment of the existence of ether is fundamentally important to scientific knowledge of the structure of matter. Dr. Miller's work was recognized as the "most notable contribution to the advancement of science in 1925," and he was awarded the Association...