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...gave the signal for a deafening onslaught of noise from his party. A tattoo was drummed with despatch boxes on the desks. Whistles, large bells and trumpets joined in one concerted, inharmonious, deafening din. The parties opposing the communists, not to be outdone, mustered their vocal chords and poured forth a varied species of banshee wail-but all to no avail. The communists not only carried the day, but held the Parliament building. A desperate Government Bench, not being able to hear itself think, finally ordered the removal of the communists from the Chamber, and a few moments later...
Standing in Westminster Abbey, Sir Roger de Coverley found himself seized with a great desire to sit on the throne which had held so many kings, just to see how it felt. After he had done so, he was perfectly satisfied, and spent the rest of the day giving forth snatches of history as they came into his mind...
...commission is at present deciding the issues presented by ex- Premier Venizelos, who set forth the views of the Greek Government on indemnities and safeguards for Hellenic subjects. Lieutenant General Sir Charles Harington, Generalissimo of the Allied forces in the Near East, also gave the Allies a survey of the present military and political situation in Turkey...
Rain in practicable quantities cannot be made by any of the artificial schemes which have been suggested, says the United States Weather Bureau in a statement apparently called forth by the plan of Dr. Wilder D. Bancroft, professor of physical chemistry in Cornell University, and L. Francis Warren, who have been conducting experiments at Dayton, Ohio, in connection with the army air service. Enormous natural forces are required to elevate moisture above the earth before it can be precipitated, according to the government meteorologists. For instance, 73,320 tons of moisture would have to be drawn into...
...particular. And having seen the evils of prescribed religious exercises, John Harvard omitted any such prescription in the bequest upon which Harvard College was founded. The alarm which many of the colonists felt at the thought of this "godless university" resulted in the foundation of Yale, intended to pour forth a stream of "untainted Calvinists". Since that time, according to a visiting Englishman of the nineteenth century, Yale men have always been horrified by the irreverence of Cambridge, while Harvard men inevitably regard the pious Elis as praying hypocrites...