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...first time in United States aviation, a flying boat hull made entirely of duralumin. The use of this metal, which is as strong as ordinary commercial steel but only one-third as heavy, resulted in a saving in weight over wood, and will effectively prevent soaking of water and rapid deterioration which accompany wooden construction...
Going down the home stretch the first eight tried every means to get away, but the seconds, responding to Mumford's rapid stroke, refused to be shaken off and finished only a length in the rear. The time...
...stated that the mission of education was to develop the interrelationship or body and mind. In recent years, he said, the rapid growth of science had meant the introduction of an increased amount of material knowledge in school. Scientific evolution had developed so fast that men's minds have been overwhelmed. Education must in this critical situation combine in men the faculty of doing with a sense of understanding of those things which are being accomplished. The mind must be developed until it can grasp the meaning of phenomena about...
...knots?or 39.2 miles an hour. Except for destroyers, no ship of the United States Navy has ever developed such great speed. Like the others of her class (Omaha, Trenton, Milwaukee, etc.) the Richmond is 550 feet in length and 55 feet abeam, and carries 12 -six-inch rapid-fire guns. Until now our Navy has been entirely without such ships, although Great Britain and Japan have a great many. It is not unlikely that one of these scout cruisers will bring President Harding back from the Pacific Coast after his trip to Alaska this summer. (See page...
...higher in the northern than the southern states, although this is not due to the race factor. Cancer is curable-if taken in time. Surgery and deep X-ray or radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy tissue...