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...meteors recorded that Dr. Poulter last week estimated some 1,000,000,000 must fall into the whole of Earth's atmosphere every 24 hours. Previous astronomical estimates put the probable number at about 20,000,000. Of these at least one a day is big enough to resist disintegration and reach Earth as a meteorite...
...Baltimore Evening Sun in an analysis of the results says, "We doubt that the political philosophy of the boys has undergone any radical change. The difference is, rather, that youth simply can not resist a man who is continually starting something and who is always willing to take a chance." Commenting on the complete reversal of sentiment, John H. Morison '35, President of the CRIMSON, said: "I had always thought I was living in the middle of a bunch of Tories here at Harvard...
...France. Reporting in Chicago and law in Toledo interested him in politics, led to his election in 1905 as a reform mayor of Toledo. In 1913 he was appointed Minister to Belgium; in 1919. Ambassador. He was credited with saving many a Belgian life by persuading Brussels not to resist Germany's Wartime invasion, gained fame by his efforts to stay the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell...
Every best-seller sooner or later comes out of Hollywood in pictorial form. Usually the producers can't resist trying to revise the original, with the result that their version bears no other resemblance to it than the title. Admirers of Hans Fallada's "Little Man What Now" will find that Frank Borzage has made a thoroughly enjoyable and faithful version of this much discussed novel, which is to be seen at Keith's this week. Though hampered by a rather sentimental and undistinguished plot, this talented director has nearly succeeded, with the aid of a nearly succeeded, with...
...Japan will oppose any attempt of China to avail herself of the influence of some other country to repel Japan . . . and also will oppose any effort by China to resist foreigners by bringing other foreigners to bear against them...