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...seems that there is no legal bar to the President's using the navy for enforcing prohibition laws. Navy officials, however, object to the use of line officers for such a purpose, so it is probable that if the plan is put into effect the rum chasers will be manned by petty officers and placed temporarily under the Coast Guard...
...visit to Jalalabad with his court, created a great sensation among his subjects. It was the first time that the Amir had visited this eastern city , and the people were curious to see the Afgan autocrat. They found him an industrious man, genial, active, simply dressed. The object of his visit is said to be to eradicate corruption from the public service...
...important points decided by the vote are first that negroes will not be excluded from the Freshman Halls by reason of their color and second that men of the white and colored races will not be compelled to live and eat in the same dormitory if they object to members of the other race...
...that service, and by limiting itself to those who can best profit thereby, it will avoid wastage through conflict with the institutions which prefer to remain open to all. A limitation of that sort is perhaps "aristocratic", but it is the sort of aristocracy to which no one can object. It will put a premium on good minds...
...believed that all matter is made up of "electrons," particles of negative electricity, and "protons," particles of positive electricity. The smallness of the electron is beyond human comprehension. Its diameter is about 30 trillionths of an inch. The most powerful microscope known would barely enable us to see an object 200 atoms wide, and if an atom were about the size of a large office building, an electron would be the size of a pinhead. Professor Thomson was Cavendish professor of experimental physics in Cambridge University from 1884 un- til 1918. During that time he developed a great research laboratory...