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Forum, with its 90,000 circulation and bountiful advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
...second. The clock is still in an experimental state, but maintains a constant rate with an error of about 1-10 of a second per day. Modifications are constantly being introduced in the hope of finding further improvements. He has also a clock making use as its timing element of the longitudinal vibrations of a bar of steel driven by magnetostrietion. This second type of clock produces alternating currents with a constant frequency of 1,000 cycles per second which then pass to a synchronous motor operating the hands. The two clocks are automatically compared by writing the seconds...
...First speaker was Chairman James Augustine Farrell, president of U.S. Steel and leading spirit of the council. Predicting greater business volume soon, he commented on the rising proportion of manufactured goods in exports, found significance in the fact that last year's gain was "achieved in precisely that element of our trade that is directly responsible to merchandising skill and enterprise...
...less legitimate, with a mother-love angle and Gary Cooper as the bandit who conceals his identity. Like Warner Baxter he is an 0. Henry character-"A Double-Dyed Deceiver" has been retouched by Oliver .H. P. Garrett-but he is no Arizona Kid. Background is an element which must be weighed carefully in appraising the characters of disguised bandits called Kid. Gary Cooper is the Llano Kid. He is about to cheat an old South American woman out of all her worldly goods when his better nature awakens. Most tiresome shot: Gary Cooper's profile...
...single and most significant part of academic history, however, in 1929-1930 relates to finance. In this immense and diverse field the most important section is the increase of current income. The increase of current income finds its largest element, as a point of application, in the salaries of teachers. Those salaries continue to rise at a rate not unlike that which obtained between 1913 and 1925 which was 100 percent. The income of the American college is normally derived from three sources: first, the fees of students; second, the income from endowment; third, annual contributions made by graduates, supporters...