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...Inasmuch as the successful working of this agreement depends upon the strict observance of all rules herein contained, each club member shall consider it a matter of honor to maintain such rules...
...scoreboard was out of the players' sight; but they did not need to see it. Sniggers and snorts from the audience, when someone played the wrong card or tried to finesse, were as explanatory as a peek at an opponent's hand. Observers wondered whether, by imposing strict rules of silence on spectators, or by enclosing the players in soundproof booths, bridge could be made into an indoor spectacle, like prize fighting, wrestling, billiards...
...health officers from France, Germany, Great Britain, Holland and Spain, nations whose ships go to the plague-infested Orient and return with a continuous threat of reintroducing the awful Black Death to Europe.? The U. S. has been happily free of plague for a dozen years, because of strict water front precautions. The Europeans were sent to study those precautions at firsthand. Ships carry rats which carry fleas which carry bubonic plague...
...cloak-&-sword drama. Aged 55, John Buchan served in the War as London Times correspondent and as intelligence officer, has written a capable history of it. He lives at Oxford, serves as Member of Parliament besides writing and publishing. Says he: "I have to live on a very strict schedule. From Monday to Friday noon I put everything out of my head but poli tics and business . . ." Weekends he gardens and writes. His three ambitions: 1) to write a complete life of General Robert E. Lee; 2) "to make the best literature accessible to the poorest purse"; 3) to improve...
...last February. At Oregon State Agricultural College where he won his B.S. degree at 21 (no early age) he was a promising, gangling youth always browsing in the chemistry and physics laboratories. Three years later he was a California Institute of Technology Ph.D., no easy distinction under the strict driving of Professor Arthur Amos Noyes, director of Caltech's Gates Chemical Laboratory. Director Noyes kept the brilliant young man at Caltech another year under a National Research Fellowship, then sent him on a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to Europe for a look at physical chemistry there. Back...