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...opinion of competent critics, the building program for the current year is endangered by rising costs of materials. Despite present high prices, still higher ones for lumber, plaster and cement are being predicted. Brick, however, the usually reliable barometer of building material costs, remains stable at present rates, despite interruption to deliveries owing to the frozen Hudson...
Massanao Hanihara, newly appointed Ambassador to America, has been instructed by Premier Kato, his chief, to do everything possible to cement Japan-American relations. He is to avoid questions likely to cause disagreement...
...trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey's alliance with the arch enemy Russia,--England finds that her friendship with France needs a touch of cement to cover over the cracks left by Lloyd-George recent experiments in Asia Minor...
...home team has a decided advantage, however, in that it is thoroughly conversant with the peculiarities of the large courts with cement side-walls which are quite unknown to all the Crimson players except Captain. E. M. Hinkle '23, who made the trip last year and assisted the University in defeating St. Paul's by a 3-2 score...
...helped to map and chart and make possible some of our fjords for tourists to visit us. They have worked out our geology and other natural sciences and helped to publish information and record facts. For the last two years they ran a steamer, dubbed the "Wop", carrying freight, cement, sand, gravel, and rock for buildings, and coal and supplies for branch nursing stations and hospitals. They have run clothing stores and lumber camps. A Princeton coach ran a lumber mill and store. They have blazed trails, built winter tilts, run schools and special classes, unloaded coal and other schooners...