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...George V, after having had to appoint a "native" whom he had never seen Governor General of Australia (TIME, Dec. 15), has been most eager to send a British blue-blood to Canada. Lady Bessborough is French, the daughter of the late Baron Jean de Neutlize, and so arc many Canadians more or less French...
More than two thousand years Archimedes, Appolonius of Perga and many another famed Greek geometrician tried to divide an arc into three equal parts with ruler & compass. Three hundred years ago, René Descartes (1650), father of analytic geometry, proved the feat was impossible by means of the Greek instruments...
...prisoners' box was not a confidence-inspiring red but leaden grey. Four soldiers guarded the eight prisoners. Facing Death, they smoked and read magazines to pass the time. Thirteen Jupiter arc lamps blazed upon judges, prosecutor, prisoners. A dozen Soviet photographers prowled and climbed about unhindered, taking snapshots. Cinema cameras, both silent and sound-recording, purred softly. To the half-million citizens shouting "Death! Death!" outside, batteries of loudspeakers shouted every word of the trial. To illiterate millions of Soviet citizens the state radio broadcast. By order of Prosecutor Krylenko daily bulletins from the trial were despatched from Moscow...
...arc of Mr. Bob's career started in Ely, Nevada, where around 1906 he was a practical mining man. In 1920 with Thomas F. Cole he raised enough money to finance the Comstock merger. He be came head of the combined companies, retained the position after the Cecil Rhodes South African group bought control...
...Many an individualistic woman of long ago bobbed her hair, viz., Joan of Arc, Lady Caroline Lamb (one of Byron's friends), George Sand...