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...mile trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking rocks, sampling gravels, speculating on the waters of the great-lake and big-game country, inspecting all "rift valleys'' to form his own theory as to whether there is a great continental split running from Abyssinia to the Jordan, and if so whether it was formed by tension (sinking) or compression (upthrusting of the sides...
...McCormick, it was conceded, had a less than even chance to defeat Senator Deneen. Chicago, with its machine, probably would go Deneen. Down-State might go McCormick unless Newton Jenkins, third candidate, managed to split the vote. The Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper"), part-owned by Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, brother-in-law of the candidate, had not committed itself beyond regretting the lack of a wet candidate. Should a wet Democrat arise, the Tribune might support him. Should he not, and should Mrs. McCormick be nominated, it might support her, although, as she has most carefully pointed...
Having thus split the Liberal Party wide open once more, Lord Grey rather pathetically peered into the future with his weak eyes. "I foresee a Liberal revival," he prophesied. "Some Liberals are thinking of turning to the Labor party. I invite them not to be in a hurry to take definite, final decision. The Labor party is not undivided, and in the Conservative party there are rumblings which may precede an earthquake. We may be uncomfortable in the Liberal party, but we may in a short time find the situation in another party more uncomfortable still...
Control. In the summer of 1919 the Canadian Government organized an Air Board, which at once began to organize Dominion flying and devise flying regulations. Eight years later Governmental work was split four ways: 1) Royal Canadian Air Force, investing all military operations (acting director, L. S. Breadner); 2) Civil Government Air Operations, in charge of all state aircraft work except the military (present director, J. L. Gordon); 3) Aeronautical Engineering Division, to advise all operators on technical and engineering matters (present chief, F. W. Stedman); 4) Civil Aviation, to administer air regulations and supervise flying operations by commercial interests...
...Williamstown, Mass., 69 years ago, the son of a professor, he graduated from Williams College in 1881, taught there from 1886 to 1893. For the next seven years he taught at Princeton, assuming the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly during his last year. To do this he had to split his week between Boston and Princeton...