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...George Washington," the late sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen. It was from Canton that Chiang marched north to conquer all China-partly with the aid of Russian and Chinese propagandists trained in Moscow who fomented disunion in his Army's path. Marching on to victory, the Generalissimo paid scant attention for several years to the seeds of Sovietism which sprouted and grew strong among Chinese in his wake...
Michigan, marching confidently again toward the Big Ten championship, got scant interference from Chicago...
Last week another scaffolding, moldy with age, was being pounded to splinters by Drs. Donald H. Menzel of Harvard Observatory and J. C. Boyce of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1869 the light of the sun's spectacular corona, trapped in spectroscopes during the scant seconds of a total eclipse, has produced on the spectrogram five mysterious bright lines. Astronomers deduced that the corona, though mostly scattered sunlight, was partly self-luminous. What element made it so? Not knowing, they called it "coronium." As recently as last year, in a standard work on eclipses, "coronium" was treated with respect...
...most exciting finish of the fall sculling regatta finals held yesterday afternoon, Richard G. Ames '34, rowing in the half-mile narrow comp race, nosed out John A. Carley '36 by a margin of a scant two feet. Farley got away to a poor start, but soon made up the ground he had lost: 15 yards from the finish he was leading by a quarter of a length, when Ames, in a sudden sprint, shot ahead to take the race. The time was 3 minutes, 45 seconds...
John Patrick O'Brien's speech sonorously accepting Tammany's renomination was loyally cheered by several hundred city employes but, since no newspaper was interested in him, it made scant news. Accurately he observed: "Everyone knows that the 5? fare does not permit a sufficient return on the city's enormous rapid transit investment. But the people have chosen to pay the interest on this investment in another form; that is, by taxation." The earnest, bumbling Mayor took credit for having dismissed 8,000 city employes, for saving $15,000,000, even for Samuel Untermyer...