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...vitriolic acid air" (sulphur dioxide), "fluor acid air" (silicon fluoride), "alkaline air" (gaseous ammonia). One day, he tried passing electric sparks through his "alkaline air" and found that it decomposed into nitro gen and hydrogen. Then, "having a notion" that ammonia and hydrochloric acid gas, mixed, might produce a "neutral air," he obtained some of the first pure crystals of sal ammoniac oy one more chance experiment...
Personally I have failed to notice or to observe either of the above views. However, a member of the faculty did tell me that 'Harvard was neutral on the matter of religion.' One has only to take a half year in Freshman Psychology in order to find out that "there ain't no such animal...
Representatives of both factions met in London, during the week, and rejected the Government plan, though leaving open the way to future negotiation. Both miners and operators opposed fiercely the Government proposal to place the adjustment of wages in the hands of a board whose neutral chairman would have a casting vote over the equal representatives of mine capital and miner labor...
...Creation of a National (coal) Wage (revision) Board, representing miners and owners equally and having a neutral chairman with a casting vote; 3) Revision of wages to proceed on the explicit understanding that the Royal Coal Commission's recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the coal industry are to be given effect; 4) Legislative measures for reconstructing the coal industry to be prepared by a Government-named committee partly representative of the miners...
...Marshal knew: 1) That Poland may be said to have "lost out" diplomatically through the failure of France to secure for her a League Council seat (TIME, March 29, THE LEAGUE), and through the signing of the Russo-German ("neutral support") treaty between Poland's two chief enemies (TIME, May 10, GERMANY). 2) That Poland's budget refuses to balance, this having led to the fall of the Skzrynski Cabinet (TlME, May 3). 3) That early last week the Nationalist leader Witos formed a new Cabinet and welcomed into it, as Minister of War, Pilsudski's avowed...