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...November 30 in the Northwest wing a lean exhibition of reproductions of Japanese prints and bronzes. The subject matter is mainly taken from nature; animals, plants, and birds. Two seventeenth century artists, Korin and Shokado, are particularly well represented. Some prints of Ryskist a modern, afford an interesting comparison between the old and the modern style...
Despite the many changes that the Survey advocates in Boston's police department, it states that on the basis of comparison with other American cities. Boston's crime totals and trends would be satisfactory to any large department in the United States...
...opportunity is thus offered for every student to hear his own voice at the beginning of his college career, and it is probable that a similar recording will be taken for purposes of comparison during the senior year...
...Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola, got up almost ten miles. So carried away was he that he made the astounding comparison of cosmic rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich Regener at Stuttgart had sent up sounding balloons to 20 miles, had demonstrated increasing cosmic ray intensity to that height, which no stratonaut since...
...Rasnik, Jugoslavia, peasants told Angjelija Nukitch she was the prettiest girl in all the world. Then spiteful villagers came back from Zagreb with news that they had seen girls who made Angjelija look homely by comparison. Pretty Angjelija wrote a note saying that she did not want to live in a world that held prettier girls, hanged herself...