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...element in the Board headed by Commissioners Benson, Haney and Thompson set out on this course some time ago. The President demanded the resignation of Mr. Haney, and Mr. Haney declined to resign (TIME, Sept. 14). Two weeks ago (Time, Oct. 12) the Board withdrew its delegation of powers to Admiral Palmer. Last week it removed...
...cannot deny with any degree of certainly the presence of the psychic element in human nature, but we do know that there has never yet been a public or private demonstration of spiritualism which has not been exposed eventually as trickery and fraud. It is my personal belief that no one who has left this earth has, or ever will come back in body or spirit," said Mr. Frederick Dunworth, well known exposer of fraudulent spiritualism, after fully convincing a large audience in the Living Room of the Union last night that he could raise tables mysteriously, make spirit photographs...
...defensive element of the game was stressed for the University players, Coach Fisher sending his men through an unusually long session at the tackling dummy...
...refrigerating element in the G. E. machine is sulphur dioxide. The "out" to this material has always consisted of the fact that it quickly corrodes parts with which it comes into contact. Evidently the ingenious "G. E." engineers have overcome this, presumably by her metically sealing the equipment, including its motor, compressor and all other moving parts. Once or twice a month the machine will have to be shut down until the frost accumulated on its brine tank can melt...
This success, after all, is certainly not inexplicable. Miss Nichols has written a play of racial conflicts, tied together by every stock device of the theatre, with lines embodying the best Irish-Jewish jokes of the past few--to be charitable--years. There is no element of surprise in plot or in situation, every entrance and every exit is perfectly obvious. There is nothing subtle in the entire piece, but Miss Nichols is not writing for a public that demands subtlety. She should not be reviled by the critics, for she has the true instinct of the showman...