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Thereafter English Comrade James Button claimed that 13 cells have been established in the British Navy; and French Comrade Barbrot not only credited himself and colleagues with a score of 14, but said that in case of need the Communist banner could be hoisted on no less than ten French warships...
...well worn button, a lock of hair, a bit of bedraggled gold braid, and a wedding ring-such are four relics beyond price which were presented to the Japanese Empire, last week at Tokyo, by the U. S. Ambassador, that puissant, cultured and droopy -mustached Manhattan lawyer Charles MacVeigh...
...ETERNAL MOMENT-E.M. Forster -Harcourt Brace ($2.50). Fifteen years ago when these stories were written, television was not an accomplished fact, nor flying taken for granted. Yet "The Machine Stops" (one of the stories) presupposes these for a subterranean segregated existence, predicates a punch of the button for mechanical medical service, punch of another for compound food tablets, another for a lecture, and yet another for a symphony. But gradually the music goes bad, the artificial air fouls, and the great god machine deteriorates quickly to utter non-function, vomiting its inhabitants up dark passages to death from unaccustomed...
...What made President Coolidge hurry away from the circus (Mrs. Coolidge and Suzanne Boone stayed on) was an engagement to press a button to send a current to ignite a dynamite charge to blow through the Great Northern R. R.'s new tunnel under the Cascade Mountains 100 miles east of Seattle, Wash. Many a citizen was surprised to learn that this Great Northern tunnel, 7.79 miles long, is the longest tunnel in the western world, 1.66 miles longer than the Moffat Tunnel through the Rockies near Denver, of which so much was heard when it was holed through...
...University game summary follows: HARVARD PENNSYLVANIA Ellison, g. g., Douglas Hartnett, pt. pt., Monk Markwett, sp. cp., Utz Lane, 1d. 1d., Button Mulliken, 2d. 2d., Gilson (Pine) Park, 3d. 3d., Borschom Hatch (Pickard), c. c., Ott McQuaid (McGuire), 3a. 3a., Sterling Glenn, 2a. 2a., Edwards Dreier, 1a. 1a., Moore Murphy, o.h. o.h., Johansen Wallance, i.h. i.h., Hirsch...