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Patiently the statesmen explained that this was no time for a war with China. Japan's business and finances were in parlous state. Japan's second-biggest indus-try is clothing China and providing her with manufactured articles. Chinese troops cannot fight a modern army, but China has one terrible...
In the hall of the Pennsylvania Historical Society in Philadelphia some 200 Biddies assembled to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the arrival in America of William Biddle, who bought a land grant on the shores of the Delaware before William Penn and his colonists arrived. Among the descendants at the...
Because of the fact that the scrimmage was devoted to the execution of now plays devised by Coach Stevens for use in Saturday's game the practice, was secret. During half of the supervised scrimmage, the scrubs launched a passing attack, both forward and lateral.
She has tasted wormwood oftener than honey. Like many a fellow radical she was born a Russian Jewess, arrived in the U. S. a simple young immigrant. Her family settled in Rochester, N. Y. and Emma went to work like anybody else. The execution of the Chicago anarchists (1887) turned...
More astounding than the vast engineering, under Chief Engineer Othmar Hermann Ammann, was the economy and speed of construction. The bridge was finished in four and a half years-eight months ahead of schedule. Construction appropriations were $60,000,000; actual costs considerably below. This so amazed Governor Roosevelt that...