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Correspondents were a little uncertain of the exact significance of the Briining-Curtius visit. Officially it was a "visit of courtesy" to thank Mussolini for his quick acceptance of the Hoover Moratorium, to discuss general European conditions. Imaginative reporters were quick to whisper "anti-French alliance...
...Bland: An exact reproduction of the surrender would involve the difficult task of training several thousand regular Army men in close formation fighting...
Original plans for the Akron prescribed a lift of 221,000 lb. for the airship herself, and capacity for a useful load of 182,000 Ib. Last week the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics estimated that the ship will be 19,000 to 20,000 Ib. overweight. The exact figure cannot be determined until after the final strips of covering are applied to the envelope and the ship is "weighed off" with lifting gas. By its contract with...
...game of pool or billiards or bowling-in-the-alley provides a simple illustration of what this great Indian and his colleagues are saying in the exact phrases of science. Pool is somewhat the best of the three illustrations...
...oldtime editorial writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, he succeeded Woodrow Wilson as economics professor at Bryn Mawr College in 1888, went to Columbia in 1894, first U. S. sociology professor to hold a chair so designated. To a science still largely abstract he brought a new, exact method, involving for the first time statistical studies. His authoritative Principles of Sociology was ten years a-writing...