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Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, to purchase apparatus providing automatic temperature controls and comparison spectrum accessories for two stellar spectographs at the Observatory...
...western railways, Charles Donnelly, President of the Northern Pacific, and many another. They came to present the railways' side of the case and were questioned by Mr. Aitchison, by shippers and others opposed to the rate increase. The argument of the railroad men was typified by a comparison made by Mr. Sargent...
Results of any real significance were two: 1) Britain, for a time at least, will not be at the mercy of a bloc of 5,000,000 laborers, which would make the K. K. K., the Italian Fascists or even the Russian Communist party look impotent in comparison; 2) Labor party leadership, especially by MacDonald and Thomas, who have really dominated in the past...
...took more than New York to raise Comrade Gulliver's gorge. Steaming up the harbor he had noted the Statue of Liberty. "How puny it seems in comparison with the watery expanse which it pretends to dominate! How lacking in artistic beauty!" Then, on landing, he plumbed the bitter depths of hypocrisy for himself. He discovered that the statue was not solid; anguished he cried: "It is typical of the hollowness of the American capitalistic state...
Mary Boland is the chief actress, she who made so much of Meet the Wife. Her performance seemed a trifle blatant, possibly only in comparison with the skillful hilarity of Edna May Oliver. The three boys, especially Humphrey Bogart, contributed highly entertaining performances...