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...canned" music and "movie-ized" art, we hear of men who, apart from the world, quietly conduct far-sighted experiments to revolutionize the future. In the midst of the wranglings of the World War, a few men were secretly working for the advancement of science. Untouched by passions for conquest and power, like the alchemists of old they worked on a device fully as great as the discovery of the philosopher's stone, a device for dumping seventy-five tons of T. N. T. on Berlin...
...deeply influenced by inventions. No one can doubt what a change was wrought in the ancient world by the use of metals. The improvement of transportation by land and water enlarged trade, and trade brought intercourse with its new relation its enlarged horizon and its temptations to a foreign conquest, until the sailing ship and the mariner's compass opened the whole world to the people of Europe. It has been pointed out that the invention of firearms and especially of cannon destroyed the feudal organization of society, because the baron's castle was not longer a refuge difficult...
...contest on June 3 will be a some-what easier matter, for the Pennsylvania team, though it has won some difficult games, has had an erratic season. An early game went to Princeton by a 4-3 score. A 13-2 conquest of Columbia came as a result of efficient playing for the Penn nine, which took advantage of every opportunity at the plate, on bases, and in the field. After a warm defeat at the hands of Swarthmore, the team again played in its best form when it shut out the Dartmouth team with four runs...
...time of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, the Indian goldsmiths of Oaxaca were perhaps unsurpassed by any in the world. Many other tribes from Mexico to Chile were also expert workers. They were proficient in the arts of casting, hammering, and embossing gold, silver, and copper, and had perfected the art of plating the baser metal with pure gold...
...tropical climate, and, unlike the Chinese, do not adapt themselves readily to unaccustomed conditions. Commercial supremacy, however, is their greatest desire, and doubtless they would like to seize the Islands, if the Americans withdrew. The well-known prowess of the natives in guerilla fighting would make such a conquest very difficult even if unhindered by the intervention of another power. Nevertheless, if independence were granted, it would be necessary to insure it by an international agreement. Otherwise they would be quickly snapped up by some outside power...