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...Vice President of the Society, Mr. Lament rose to speak. He paid the necessary compliments to those present, to the Premier, the Government, Ambassadors de Martino and Fletcher and ex-Ambassador Prince Caetani; then turned his attention to Italian finances, called Signor de Stefani's balanced budget "a wonderful feat." "I note, too," he said, "Italy's material advance in industry. I see no signs of public unrest or clamor. On the contrary, tranquillity everywhere prevails...
...British airship R-33, sister ship of the famous K34 which crossed the Atlantic in 1920, repeated, last week, the feat of the U. S. airship Shenandoah, which, last year, went on an unintentional voyage (TIME, Jan. 28, 1924). The R33 was moored to the mast at Pulham airdrome in Norfolk, England, during one of the worst gales known to the windswept English coast. Under the terrific pull of a 50-mile-an-hour wind, she tore away the arm of the mooring mast. The damage inflicted was even worse than in the case of the, Shenandoah. The first...
...ever-active New York World, last week, announced proudly "a new literary achievement." This feat amounted to nothing less than inducing the fiction editors of 16 U. S. magazines each to select that short story which he felt to be the best his magazine had published in 1924. Assembled at a luncheon given by the World, the editors had been told that, by definition, they were the most competent judges of short stories in the U. S.; hence a collection of tales selected by them would be the most authoritative volume of "best stories of 1924" conceivable. Enthusiastically the editors...
...Zealand sprinter will be somewhat delayed by late examinations but will arrive in New York at least two days before the games. Porritt has the distinction of having broken the English intercollegiate record in the 100-yard dash which had stood for over 70 years. He accomplished this feat during a snow storm in the Oxford Cambridge meet in March, running the distance in 9.9 seconds. He is also a hurdler and captured second place in both hurdle events in the same meet...
...Georg Tchitcherin, journeyed to the town of Leninkin, operated a sluice to the strains of Internationale, opened the Shiraksky Canal, 40 miles long. Two miles of its course runs through a tunnel bored under rocky mountains. It is designed to irrigate 15,000 acres and is the first engineering feat of any consequence attempted during the Bolshevik régime...