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...come not from Dijon but from Paris. Raymond Prince, son of the murdered judge, cried bravely: "In spite of the terrible responsibility it involves, which may cost me my life, I am determined to tell all I know. I feel certain that this was a political crime. My proof is that my father on the day following his death was to have submitted a report concerning several important personalities whose names I intend to make public within a few days...
Such was the challenge flung last week in Cleveland at conferring members of the National Vocational Guidance Association. Challenger was Research Associate Irving Lorge of Columbia's Teachers College. His "proof" was a survey conducted in New York City under Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike...
...view of the fact that the subject of the article is an outstanding idol of the hero-worshippers, is proof beyond question that the author possesses that--which in the vernacular of the street would be termed--"Plenty guts...
...wing attached to the fire station is the new fire alarm headquarters for the city of Cambridge and there the Fire Department jealously guards the delicate signal system. No pains have been spared to make the alarm headquarters foolproof and fire-proof. To safeguard the equipment against fire, each window is equipped with jets for a "water curtain" and also a steel curtain which falls automatically if a fire breaks out nearby. Both of these protections work on the principle of the automatic sprinkler system--that is, the metal with which the ends of the jets are covered melts...
First commentator on Pilot Sheridan's harrowing experience was Publisher Stuart H. Perry of the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram. As an authority on meteors Publisher Perry declared: "The fact that Sheridan saw the meteor disappear is conclusive proof that he was not very close to it, because most meteors cease to glow at a height of about five miles...