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Coal. There seemed some likelihood when Congress assembled that a permanent arrangement for settling coal strikes would be made into law, for the anthracite strike was then three or four months old and still going. But the strike was settled (TIME, Feb. 22, COAL), interest waned, Administration leaders did not press for a bill...
...possible compromise nominee?that if Cummins or Brookhart were nominated, the embittered supporters of the other would turn to the Democratic nominee, with the possibility that the Republican state of Iowa would elect a second Democratic Senator. But in proportion as the partisanship between Brookhart and Cummins increases, the likelihood of Iowa's turning to an innocent bystander, however well thought of, decreases...
...seems almost certain to win Saturday's race the Crimson crew is confident that it will make a better showing than it did last week. If Captain Winthrop's eight remains within hailing distance of the Annapolls shell, and does better against Tech than last week, there is little likelihood that there will be any changes in the lineup...
...what came of it, including the talk that Jimmy the Hangman's house was haunted after his death until it blazed to the ground-all this is a strange, touching story that might or might not have happened just as it did; and no great matter, either, if likelihood is sometimes owed small debts...
Nine days was a long time for two men and an airplane to be missing in the Arctic, but there were comforting considerations. Wilkins had had a bad wrist and would not, in all likelihood, have attempted to penetrate the Polar Basin contrary to his announced plan. "Sandy" Smith, chief of the overland party of the expedition, having reached the seacoast on his way to Barrow, flashed word that Eskimos at Thetis Island, 100 mi. southeast of Barrow had seen the Alaskan pass over, presumably on its most recent trip...