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...Coffee Pot" is the name of an "atmosphere" which will be created at Kirkland House this week, which will be called forth every evening from a cloud of smoke, and which will be featured by ten and one-half minute talks from members of the House. "The Coffee Pot," according to announcement of the House Committee, will be so informal and illusory as to escape entirely the appellation of "organization" but will meet in the Committee Room at 7 o'clock or as soon as three men appear...
...course of an economy program, the Duke of Westminster sold his four-masted 203-ft. yacht Flying Cloud to Nelson B, Warden of Philadelphia...
...Streets of New York, or Poverty Is No Crime. "It is a gloomy moment in history. In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia hangs as usual like a cloud dark and silent upon the horizon of Eu rope ; while all the energies, resources and influences of the British Empire are sorely tried, and are yet to be tried more sorely, in coping with the vast and deadly Indian insurrection. ... Of our own troubles no man can see the end. If we are only to lose money and by painful poverty be taught wisdom, no man need...
...horizon. They "shoot the sun" through the eyepiece of a sextant. If the day is cloudy, they cannot see the sun, although they may know its approximate location. The MacNeil sextant is connected with an amplifier sensitive to the sun's infra-red rays. Those rays go through clouds. All an uncertain navigator need do is to sweep the sun-obscuring cloud with the eyepiece of this special sextant until the amplifier gives the greatest response to the sun's invisible presence...
Lieut. Stainforth dived onto the course, crossed the starting line at about 7 mi. per min., 100 ft. above the surface of the water. Five times he flashed back & forth along the straightaway, guiding himself by cloud formations, while electric timing cameras caught the picture that was too fleeting for any stopwatch to record accurately. Spectators watched nervously while Lieut. Stainforth made a landing at 100 m. p. h. in a choppy sea. Said he quietly: "I believe I've broken the record." Then he went to officers' mess...