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...seen, because of the small precipitation in recent winters, but the extinct glciation more than compensated. On both sides of the Whitney group, glaciers formed in the cirques under the peaks and flowed down east and west, but in greater volume westward, facing the Pacific. Every stream has a chain of glacial lakes at the head, and between them, as the ice and its rock burden moved down, it carved and gouged and polished the granite in typical glacial forms; a couple of miles below. Whitney on Crabtree Creek a casual estimate of the thickness of the ice gave...
...United States." ¶ An oil painting of the U. S. fleet entering Sydney harbor in 1925 was the gift brought by Sir Hugh Robert Denison, new Australian Commissioner to the U. S., when he was officially presented to President Coolidge. ¶ A four-inch dagger attached to a chain which may be worn around the neck, a weapon which Finns use to defend themselves against highway robbers, was the gift of Paavo Nurmi, greatest contemporary distance-runner. It was presented to President Coolidge by Murray Hulbert, President of the Amateur Athletic Union...
Woolworth's to Germany. Its chain stores in England now well established, the F. W. Woolworth Co. (5c & 10c) last week prepared for a similar chain in Germany...
...equipped with cutting blades, which are towed by armored cable from ships for defense. By adjustment of their rudders, paravanes can be made to travel beside the ship at any desired depth and distance, the cable fanning out across the ship's bows. Upon encountering the anchor chain of a submerged mine or the hull of a submarine, the cable draws the paravane into contact. When the mine's anchor chain is severed, the submarine is blown...
...years, since, indeed the time when Garibaldi lived in Brooklyn and the daisy chain had buxom links, Freddie has served the public, privately, of Boston. Last night he again moved effectively, convincingly over modern streets, an anachronism, with a bad leg. So when those who out of generosity and victory donate to the Army of Salvation, it must be hoped that this grand old man and grand old horse will stir an occasional tear. One need not wait until Freddie fails, to weep o'er his prostrate white form in the Sterne mannerly...