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*Slang term meaning electric current, used by doorbell repairmen, high school radio tinkerers, baffled babbitts. Astute Engineer Ogle would never be guilty of using such a misnomer.
Nothing less than mental Omnipotence is required of the University Information Desk in University Hall which embarks February 11 upon its second year of answering a great many questions which would cause a Britannica Encyclopedia to go into hysterics. The well-meaning, secluded, unassuming little Desk is called upon to...
"The antagonism to the British in China is largely due to our sending missionaries there. . . . The ancient faiths in China are as sacred to the Chinese as is Christianity to ourselves. The sooner our well-meaning people give up their crusade in India and China the better for us all...
When he acquired his Western Pacific holdings, Mr. James stated that the investment was "purely personal," meaning that he was not representing his other companies, but only himself. Nevertheless, a still further consolidation of western transportation was not invisible, if the Interstate Commerce Commission should approve Mr. James's...
In his dissenting opinion, Justice McKinney held with the Scopes defense and with Henry E. Colton of the Tennessee Academy of Science (which pressed the appeal) that the language employed by Farmer J. W. Butler, the bill's hillbilly author, was "so vague that men of common intelligence must...