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...your issue of Nov. 2, p. 36, cols. 2 and 3, you quoted from the report of the Comptroller of the Currency as to national banks throughout the United States having deposits of fifty millions or more, but your report is in error in one respect at least: you mention the cities in which there is one or more national banks having deposits of fifty millions or more, but you do not mention the city of Portland, Ore. The writer is a director of The United States National Bank of Portland (Ore), which you will see from the inclosed condition...
...What was the time of the appearance? If watch time can be given, with a statement of the error of the watch, so much the better; but answer according to your best information...
...order that I may see my name in print and so satisfy a seemingly overweening desire for publicity. I am not going to tell you that you have spelled someone's name incorrectly ; that in so-and-so line on such-and-such page a typographical error occurs; nor shall I take you to task for inadvertently or intentionally slandering some race or creed; furthermore, I shall not take this opportunity to announce ta you dramatically that from this time and henceforth you shall be denied the great privilege of mailing to me each week your valueless publication...
...German soldier, who was supposed to have had to assist in boiling down some of his comrades. And it was planned that a certain correspondent who had a passion for German diaries should be allowed to 'discover' it. ... But I felt that the deception had gone far enough. . . . An error in the diary might have led to an exposure of the falsity, which would have imperiled the effectiveness of all British propaganda. ... It was never used and is now in the London War Museum...
...when the object weighed (1/29,000 oz. of quartz filament) is lightened by the pull of sun or moon, the scale tips, the wavelength no longer matches (having traveled different distances), and the shadow-bands reflect weight variations caused by gravity within small fractions of a second. To eliminate error, the ray used was a green one, of uniform wavelength, passed from a mercury lamp through an interferometer (light-filter...