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...League defenders had victories to claim. The 15th Assembly was most successful as a membership drive. After much preliminary palaver Red Russia was given the right hand of capitalist fellowship (TIME, Oct. 1). And just before adjournment Afghanistan and Ecuador became 59th and 60th nations to join the fold. That left only two potent countries outside the League: Brazil and the U. S., with Japan and Germany withdrawn...
Computations on the action of glaciers from data collected this summer are now being made in the Geology Department. The figures upon which they are working are the result of three months work by a combined Harvard-Dartmouth expedition which had as its two-fold purpose the ascent of Mt. Crillon's 12,728 foot peak in the Fairweather range of Alaska and the collecting of accurate information in the little-known field of glacier movements. The party, composed of 11 men under the leadership of Bradford Washburn '33, was divided into two groups; the climbing party of Adams Carter...
Such was the tale. The details might be denied one by one as fabulous but their total effect was to dramatize beyond any denial the inward convulsions through which NRA is passing. About questions of impersonal policy, a highly personal contest was raging. This two-fold fight was not between Hugh Johnson and Donald Richberg alone. It was, in effect, a game of mixed doubles...
...Wright or Moffat would light a cigaret on a reed and tell the subject to smoke at his natural rate, while electric thermometers registered the temperatures of fingertips and the doctors studied through the microscope the behavior of blood in the nail fold capillaries. In most cases, except for shredded paper cigarets, finger temperatures dropped from 1° to 15° with each smoke. In several cases, circulation of blood ceased, briefly but entirely, in the capillaries of the nail folds...
First to God and then to the President a 12-year-old St. Paul, Minn., boy appealed to grant his three-fold wish: to see the U. S. fleet, to inspect some Army airplanes to own a bicycle. The President was away but Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson offered to grant the first two requests, advised continued prayer for the bicycle...