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...tangible issues to work with?the Brown Derby,the Noble Experiment, the Church in Poli tics, Raddio, Two Cars in Every Garage?a Chicken in Every Pot. This year the election turns on larger but less concrete issues. At work below the surface are economic forces too abstract and complex for the average cartoonist to depict?the Gold Standard, War Debts, a Balanced Budget, 50¢ wheat, "Pork," "Panic," Credit Inflation, a Change. The Republicans are fighting a defensive battle on a Record that does not lend itself to easy lampooning. Ridicule of the Democratic attack has been mostly superficial...
Aeronautical engineers have long experimented with the two-cycle engine for airplanes. In such an engine the four strokes of the pistons-1) intake, 2) compression, 3) explosion, 4) exhaust- are reduced to 1) compression 2) explosion. Fuel is forced into and out of the cylinders by a pump. Complex lubrication is dispensed with by mixing oil with the gasoline. That advantage largely accounted for the failure of most experiments to date: the burned oil left heavy carbon deposits. Last week a new, light two-cycle engine was described by Dick Roberts, plump aviation editor of the Toledo Blade...
...this year. The revision of the city statutes is a reform which has been needed for twenty years. Many of the ordinances are not only contradictory among themselves, but are at variance with state statutes. New ordinances have been added each year until the situation has become so complex that city administrative heads can scarcely define their powers. The University has been of much service to Cambridge. The people and administration of the city appreciate the fine spirit of helpfulness that the University has shown in the problems confronting Cambridge...
...average student who attends college in or near a city, it may be a somewhat difficult matter to imagine the possibilities that offer themselves to the country-bred student for an escape from the artificialities of our all too complex civilization...
...satisfy the tenants' demand for speed and the owners' need of profit is a complex problem which Carl F. Scott, Manhattan engineer, discussed in the current Engineering News-Record...