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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Meeting at Bristol last week, pedagogs in Section L of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (see p., 36) delivered themselves of their newest thoughts about the British educational system, among them these...
Part-Time v. Full-Time. Said Lord Eustace Percy, president of the section, president of the British Board of Education (1924-29), stanch supporter of the League of Nations...
...motor, stalled it into a spin, yanked a release cord. A little "pilot 'chute" popped out of its container under the fuselage, dragging a big 'chute (60 ft.) billowing up and over the tail. The plane, suspended by its centre wing section from the parachute, floated earthward at about 15 m. p. h.. swinging and gyrating as it settled. On alighting, only damage was to landing-gear and lower wing...
...that he came of a noble Austrian family. His knowledge of European military technique and court etiquette seemed to bear out his claim that he had graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. During years of penury in the U. S. he had been a flypaper salesman, riding master, lifeguard, section hand, bundle wrapper, and forest ranger. When Hun villains were no longer in demand he sold Carl Laemmle the idea for a picture-The Pinnacle. Laemmle changed the name to Blind Husbands. "No one vill go to see de pinochle." Von Stroheim directed and played the lead. He arranged stories...
...Dawes & friends wandered last fortnight into the Dordogne section of southwestern France, to clamber about the rocks of the Vezere valley, penetrated dark caves and troglodytic dwellings. Traveling from there into northern Spain, the party went to Santander, to visit Altamira Cavern and study the famed Paleolithic frescoes painted with mineral oxides, the bison engravings cut into rock. Then Mr. Dawes visited the National Archeological Museum and the Museum of Natural History in Madrid. Headquarters of the expedition in Spain was in the southern province of Huelva...