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...system, although "peaks" above and below the line succeeded each other, they were not regular, and it was impossible to predict the height of one peak from those that preceded it. While working in a Boston business Mr. Babson discovered that prosperity and depression should be measured by the area above and below the "X Y" line and that equal areas of prosperity and depression followed one another...
...plans for the summer camps are at present tentative, but the dates for opening the camps will be between July 15 and Aug. 10, and applications for entering should be addressed to the commander of the corps area in which the applicant lives...
...Council of the League of Nations in 1919, Upper Silesia was to be given outright to the Poles because of the predominance of Polish population. But this idea has been abandoned due to the strong claims of the Germans who maintain that this country,-some 5000 square miles in area,-having been in German hands for seven hundred years, has become thoroughly Teutonized and does not desire, therefore, to become a part of Poland. Furthermore, the Germans claim that they will be unable to pay their war debt without the aid of the very valuable resources of the Silesian territory...
...country of great natural resources, and that as yet it was practically undeveloped. Except along the courses of the rivers the country is a desert, but there are many recently discovered oil fields which are now being used by France and England. It is in this barren area that the Desert-Arabs, the remnants of the original inhabitants of the country, live. Wandering about the desert in tribes, they consider themselves the highest class socially of all the people of the country. They have an especially deep hatred for the City Arabs, and they make frequent raids on the towns...
Fordham, possessing a powerful defensive combination in Jerry Noonan and MacPherson, has been uniformly successful to date, outdistancing Princeton 2-1 at the start of the season. Though their development has been severely handicapped by the small ice-area for practice, the New York players are expected to present as strong opposition to the Crimson as may be found in the East this winter...