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...Americans treat the opera as if it were a movie; they have absolutely no understanding for the art. They 'feel' music in an original and somewhat sentimental way, but they don't bother to test what is beneath the surface--the music comes in at one ear and goes right out of the other...
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Naval bigwigs congratulated Com-mander Charles E. Rosendahl of the Los Angeles exultantly. The test proving that floating filling stations are feasible, widened immeasurable the range of dirigible utility. Commercial dirigible interests eagerly proclaimed that transoceanic airship travel was a more immediate probability now that dirigibles may nose safely down to the vast smooth expanse of landing deck superimposed on aircraft mother ships. The flying deck of the Saratoga is 880 ft. long; the Los Angeles...
During the entire months of February and March the club's new sun bath room will be open to the members. The room is open every day from 10, to 7 o'clock. A special attendant is in charge of the baths and makes a test to determine the amount of exposure to the actinic rays that each person should have. Complete card records are kept of every treatment taken, thus eliminating the possibilities of over-exposure. The exposure to the ultra-violet rays will vary from two minutes for new patrons to a longer time for those who have...
...hand in his overcoat pocket, pulled out a large pebble, flung it through a front door window of the nearest house. No irate head appeared, so Mr. Romano (of deductive temperament) forced the front door and calmly ransacked the house of its valuables. Thereafter, he always used the pebble test before burgling. Last week, however, the police captured...